 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pàgines
...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 live after the world's...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages thr.t have become dead to you is that it scatters your... | |
 | 1884 - 750 pàgines
...of his own superiority, whether imaginary or real, without interrupting others in the same felicity. 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 crowd, keeps, with perfect sereneness,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pàgines
...which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The only way to have a friend is to be one. You shall not come nearer to a man by getting... | |
 | 1886 - 204 pàgines
...from the evil. — John xvii. 15. 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...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. EMERSON. Man should dare all things that he knows are right, And fear to do no act save what... | |
 | 1887 - 460 pàgines
...there is among so many of losing all self-reliance in matters of study. The great student no less than the great man is "he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Discussion from day to day with one's fellowstudents of the subjects under consideration... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 pàgines
...exciting things happened,' be assured that you are in a good way."1 " The great man," says Emerson, " is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." And he closes his Conduct of Life with a striking allegory. The young mortal... | |
 | Orson Ferguson Whitney - 1888 - 544 pàgines
...OF HEBER C. KIMBALL, AN APOSTLE; THE FATHER AND FOUNDER OF THE BRITISH MISSION. BY ORSON F. WHITNEY. IT IS easy in the world to live after the world's...perfect sweetness the independence of his character. — Emerson. PUBLISHED BY THE KIMBALL FAMILY, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. PRINTED AT THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pàgines
...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 live after the world's...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pàgines
...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 live after the world's...live after our own ; but the great man is he who in / I ^ £~ the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect ! f sweetness the independence of solitude, f The... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1888 - 584 pàgines
...December 7th. The essayist took as a' text for her much enjoyed production, Emerson's sentence, " A great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Cincinnati, Ohio.- Rev.Geo.A. Thayer is giving a series of eight sermons on "The Truths... | |
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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. 
