 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 of solitude.  Twelve Essays - Side 45af Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1905 - 778 sider
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because...duty better than you know it. 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... | |
 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 674 sider
...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...duty better than you know it. 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 sider
...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 who think they 10 know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to liyg.jaftfir the. world... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 sider
...of personal influence it is impossible to fix, as persons are organs of moral or supernatural force. will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. A CULTIVATED man .... hates what he has if he see that it is accidental — came to him by inheritance,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 sider
...equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction 15 between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you...duty better than you know it. 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... | |
 | Katherine Jewell Everts - 1908 - 240 sider
...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...duty better than you know it. 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 sider
...intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the hardes, ; because you will always find those who think they...better than you know it. ;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... | |
 | Constance M. Whishaw - 1908 - 402 sider
...CHARLES KINGSLEY. " WHAT I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule ... is harder, because you will always find those who think...they know what is your duty better than you know it." EMERSON. 166 public ©pinion JUNE 15 " IT is not the many who reform the world ; but the few who rise... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 sider
...that has deserved most of his fellow-creatures. — SuWilliam Jones. It is easy in the world to live your own ; bnt the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 sider
...wide world he only is alone who Uves not for another. — Rogers. It is easy, in the world, to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy, in solitude, to live after yonr own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
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