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Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in…

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.

In today’s wordsIt's easy in the world to live by the world's opinion, and easy in solitude to live by your own; but the great person is the one who, in the middle of the crowd, keeps the independence of solitude with perfect grace.

Ralph Waldo EmersonCommonly attributed
Source
From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

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