What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those... Essays, orations and lectures - Página 30por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 páginas
...shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. August Twenty-fourth. August Twenty-fifth. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. August Twenty-sixth. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 páginas
...actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assuiance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what...always find those who think they know what is your duly better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy... | |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1895 - 380 páginas
...it in the highest attainable state of efficiency. CHAPTER VI. WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK. •' "IT THAT 1 must do is all that concerns me, not » » what the people think. This rule," says Emerson, " equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 páginas
...am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. 9. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...they know what is your duty better than you know it. JJt is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 páginas
...actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder,... | |
| 1899 - 606 páginas
...but honest and honorable. Remember what that greatest of American ethical thinkers, Emerson, says : ' What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. ... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1900 - 638 páginas
...faith that should never fail us." — CARLYLE'S Letters. " What I must do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...you will always find those who think they know what your duty is better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion : it... | |
| Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 páginas
...am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. 155 What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...harder because you will always find those who think 160 they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 636 páginas
...faith that should never fail us." — CARLYLE'S Letters. " What I must do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...between greatness and meanness. " It is the harder beeause you will always find those who think they know what your duty is better than you know it. It... | |
| 1901 - 542 páginas
...into his work and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace." "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is easy in the... | |
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