 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
 | William Alexander Cocke - 1908 - 538 sider
...greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. — Horace Mann. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion — it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Stanton Coit - 1908 - 508 sider
...not believe. Or in this perfectly poised utterance of Emerson : — It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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 - 1909 - 496 sider
...arduous in actual and in intellectual-life, may serve for the whole 4istinctio£Lbetwee«-grea{ness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always...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 - 1912 - 314 sider
...equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between 30 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1910 - 544 sider
...sir, in your modest attempt. Remember this, however, that the greatest reason is always the truest. You will always find those who think they know what is your duty far better than you know it yourself, so go to the Sunday School if they bid you; there 'sa good boy.... | |
 | Katherine Jewell Everts - 1911 - 382 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 - 1911 - 148 sider
...arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and 10 meanness. It is the harder, because you will always...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 - 1911 - 196 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...those who think they know what is your duty better Selftrust GreatInde pend The World Spirit than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the... | |
 | Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - 1911 - 292 sider
...trying to outwit Nature, who is sure to be cunninger than they. 29. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
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