 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. 222!) Emerson : Miscellanies. Literary Ethics. The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 2230 Emerson : Essays. Self-Beliance. We balance one man with his opposite, and the health of the State... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1890 - 514 pages
...on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. " The great man," he elsewhere says, " is 1 Epictetus. 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,"... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Christian life - 1891 - 228 pages
...on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. " The great man," he elsewhere says, " is 1 Epictetus. 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,"... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - American literature - 1892 - 192 pages
...thoughts that, hy looking into them, he is immediately in perfect tranquility." — MARCUS AURELIUS. "The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd,...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — EMERSON. t " So happily am I situated, that I enjoy all the charms of rural seclusion, yet retain... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Learning and scholarship - 1893 - 126 pages
...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...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | 1908 - 324 pages
...the world," says Emerson, " 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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." " No man," says Shelley, " has a right to do an evil thing that good may come Politics are only sound... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...Rivarole. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; easy in solitude to live after ot a true man of science who does not 40 bring some...studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as Rmerssn. -5 It is easy to be a spendthrift with other people s property. Platen. It is easy to condemn... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1893 - 76 pages
...definition already given, while quite apposite to the individuality we are attempting to describe, — "the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." That he of whom we are now speaking should have kept the serenity of solitude,... | |
 | Medicine - 1894 - 596 pages
...exactly modeled after an eastern school, might read the following before they do any more ranting: "The objection to conforming to usages that have become...scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs your character. ' ' Some of the ardent admirers and supporters of the Denver Associate Charities, may... | |
 | Mary Jane Chisholm Foster - Religious education of preschool children - 1894 - 252 pages
...says, " 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...perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." The Bible narrative of Sunday was Matt, ii, 1-12. Monday we talked of the star — explained that it guided... | |
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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. 
