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. Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 155by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
| Philosophy - 1879 - 460 pages
...its singularity. We seem almost to hear the echo of words like unto these of Emerson : " It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." We have seen how the first physical speculations, the utter reliance on sensation, had been thrust... | |
| Mormons - 1884 - 506 pages
...way is made open to one who rushes zealously toward some object lying beyond the crowd. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. — Emerson. QUEBEC AND MARITIME PROVINCES. FROM Montreal to Quebec is a journey of... | |
| William Harvey Wells - English language - 1880 - 208 pages
...7. " No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." — Lady MW Montague. 8. "The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd,...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — Emerson. Point out the nouns in the foregoing sentences. Which are proper ? Which common ? Which... | |
| Education - 1921 - 744 pages
...all that concerns me, not what people think. A man should not appeal by his actions to public favor. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. Suggestion 18. Show that the first assertion of (a) is a dangerous doctrine. Reproduce Emerson's censure... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy your own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - Eloquence - 1881 - 336 pages
...positive or absolute member, and the rising, on the negative or relative. Example — " It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it...great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps the independence of solitude." Emphatic circumflex inflections are also employed in irony, rind in... | |
| John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 528 pages
...select a few characteristic examples. " Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds." " The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." "We grant that human life is mean, but how did we find out that it was mean ?" " What is the universal... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...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 opinion; it...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - x The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...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 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.... | |
| Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 pages
...bad,honie influences will,as a rule, fan them into activity. Character, independence of. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live alter our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
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