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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. "
The Monthly magazine - Page 486
by Monthly literary register - 1841
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Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert ...

1899 - 136 pages
...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...
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The Victory of the Will

Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 386 pages
...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...
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The New England Medical Gazette, Volume 34

1899 - 606 pages
...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...
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Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Bar ..., Volume 21

North Carolina Bar Association - 1920 - 334 pages
...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...
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Story of My Life, Volume 6

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1900 - 638 pages
...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...
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The Southern California Practitioner, Volume 15

1900 - 510 pages
...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...
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Introductory Lessons in English Literature: For High Schools and Academies

Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...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....
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Thoughts

Jessie K. Freeman, Ladies of Fabiola Hospital Association, Fabiola hospital association, Oakland, Calif - 1901 - 182 pages
...is attracting our regard. —Furness. One never speaks of himself except at a loss. — Montaigne. It is easy in the world, to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. —Emerson. If you knew the light That your soul casts in my sight, How I look to you For the good...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...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...
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English Grammar

Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 268 pages
...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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