 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.  The Monthly magazine - Pàgina 486per Monthly literary register - 1841Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1899 - 136 pàgines
...meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude, Life only avails, not the having lived. The soul becomes. With consistency a great soul has simply... | |
 | Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 386 pàgines
...meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy, in the world,...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." Action has no moral value save as it is the development, the completion, and, as it were, the fruition... | |
 | 1899 - 606 pàgines
...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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.' " Honesty of soul. — Arraign yourselves occasionally before the bar of your own judgment, with your... | |
 | North Carolina Bar Association - 1920 - 334 pàgines
...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...great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." With all his freedom and solitude, however, the country... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1900 - 638 pàgines
...meanness. "It is the harder because 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...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 crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | 1900 - 510 pàgines
...world to li^e aft-er the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own; but Ihp great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweet ness the independence of solitude." This independence of solitude that Tnoreau speaks of is absolutely... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pàgines
...meanness. It is 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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 165 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pàgines
...know | ,what is your duty better than you know it, I , (It is easy in the world to live after they world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live ',...who '( in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect <j sweetness the independence of solitude.) The objection to conforming to usages that have become... | |
 | Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 268 pàgines
...meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to...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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