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. Luther League Review - Σελίδα 41918Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Mary Jane Chisholm Foster - 1894 - 252 σελίδες
...older this may illustrate the idea of Mr. Emerson in his essay on " Self Reliance," where he says, " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." The Bible narrative of Sunday was Matt, ii, 1-12. Monday we talked of the... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 σελίδες
...whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. — POJK. 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 sweetness the... | |
| Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia - 1898 - 198 σελίδες
...body is the bow that sends them home. The mind aims, the body fires." — NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS. "A great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude. Happy is he who has a sanctuary in his own soul. He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 σελίδες
...Gods still sitting on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. "The great man," he elsewhere says, "is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." We may all, if we will, secure peace of mind for ourselves. "Men seek retreats," says Marcus Aurelius,... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1893 - 506 σελίδες
...on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. " The great man," he elsewhere says, " is 1 Emctetus. he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." We may all, if we will, secure peace of mind for ourselves. " Men seek retreats," says Marcus Aurelius,... | |
| 1895 - 344 σελίδες
...with others, and yet to follow our own consciences ; to unite social deference and selfdominion. 19. 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... | |
| 1896 - 234 σελίδες
...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...midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 σελίδες
...this way, it ought not to be discussed at all. He would have us each independent; and yet he says, "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with ptrfect sweetness the independence of solitude." "Perfect sweetness" never means sourness, bigotry... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 σελίδες
...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...midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. HISTORY CIVIL and natural history, the history of art and of literature,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 σελίδες
...chosen plain food for health ? " What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. ... It is easy in the world to live after the world's...midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ii. 55. 4. Like George Nidiver, Courage, vii, 261. Head the ballad. 6. "... | |
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