...societies may delight the unthinking and the gay, but solitude is the best nurse of wisdom. ANONYMOUS What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...meanness. It is the harder because you will always End those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to...

...I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction...what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man...

...will. The rest are herds; he uses; they are used. He is the Maker; they are the made. -Emerson 339) What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder...

...under the inkwell—some quotation or idea he had scribbled down." The quotation is from Emerson: " 'What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.' Emerson, of course. Emerson had said so many things he had taken unto himself." Mark continues to think...

...must be a nonconformist"; "Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule"; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"; "I suppose no man can violate his nature";...

...right or proper to conduct oneself is explained in terms of how it is best for a human being to be."'s "What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think" (W 2: 31). Underneath (or above) venial distractions and self-divisions is the assumption of a core...

...If that indeed happens to be the case, I shouldn't be very much bothered, for as Emerson has said, "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."3 By the time I actually have a published copy of this book I will most likely disagree with...

...and the search for basic inner truths that are so fundamental to the modern American self concept. 'What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.''4 Break away from the erosion of our 'self trust', he urges, from consistency, 'the hobgoblin...

...one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! - Ralph Waldo Emerson What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder,...

...individualism. and authority of the soul".52 He rails against the coercive and collective group when he writes "you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it," and "...do not tell me. ..of my obligations to put all poor men in good situations".52 He lashed out...