
“ 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. ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1841). copy citation
Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Source | Self-Reliance |
Topic | loneliness society independence |
Date | 1841 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays:_First_Series/Self-Reliance |