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.—EMERSON.
Morley reflects on the challenge of maintaining individuality amidst societal pressures, quoting Emerson to emphasize the importance of inner independence.
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The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.
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There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
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