| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 páginas
...what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness....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... | |
| Martha B. Mosher - 1898 - 250 páginas
...think they know another's duty better than he knows it himself. Our great philosopher has said : " It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
| 1898 - 404 páginas
...teachers of the West taught substantially the philosophy that Emerson voices in the following words: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he that in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
| James N. Patrick - 1898 - 238 páginas
...to stand for the real, logical subject which follows the verb ; as, It is a duty to love humanity. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is a pity that he has so much learning, or that he has not a great deal more. 2. It is used as an impersonal... | |
| 1899 - 136 páginas
...what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness....world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the ' great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
| Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 386 páginas
...what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness....world's opinion ; it is easy, in solitude, to live after our own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps, with perfect sweetness, the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 páginas
...not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness....world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
| North Carolina Bar Association - 1920 - 334 páginas
...hours to sleep, in laws grave study six, Four spent in prayer, the rest on nature fix." Emerson says: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps perfect sweetness the independence... | |
| 1899 - 606 páginas
...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 our own ; but the great man is he, who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
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