 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 sider
...am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows, any secondary testimony. " What I must do, is all that concerns me ; not what...always find those who think they know what is your dnty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 sider
...actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do, is all that concerns me ; not what...whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It_is the harder, because ypu will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 sider
...actuality am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world tolive after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live afier our own; but the great man is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 sider
...actuallly am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction hetween greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 sider
...Selfreliance is its aversion — it loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. INDEPENDENCE. — What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what...always find those who think they know what is your duty belter than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 sider
...intellectual life, may serve for •><Hi between greatness and meanness. Tt is the harder because n(i those who think they know what is your duty better than you asy in the world to livu after the world's opinion ; it is easy in after our own ; but tho givat mau... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 sider
...actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. *What I must do is all that concerns me, not what...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual ; I r v. and-in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 588 sider
...thus explains it: What I must do Is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rale, equally arduous In actual and in intellectual life,...distinction between greatness and meanness. It is tbe harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 610 sider
...marks the boundary between them. Emerson thus explains it: What I mnet do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...In actual and In Intellectual life, may serve for tbe whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It Is the harder, because you will always find... | |
 | Mrs. E. N. Gladding - 1858 - 258 sider
...they, and I will not turn back, though difficulties and disappointments spring up all around me. " What I must do, is all that concerns me, — not what the people think/' says Emerson ; and I send forth my leaves culled, almost at random, from the thick foliage, (not of... | |
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those... 
