There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel... Essays: First Series - Page 52by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1844 - 452 pages
...this same chapter of self-reliance, an excellent lecture on the old-fashioned virtue of content. " There is a time in every man's education, when he...take himself for better for worse, as his portion. — The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can... | |
| 1844 - 450 pages
...this same chapter of self-reliance, an excellent lecture on the old-fashioned virtue of content. " There is a time in every man's education, when he...take himself for better for worse, as his portion. — The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; from the devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very... | |
| 1856 - 386 pages
...— yet " to this conclusion do we come at last," — that man is turned back upon himself. Goethe. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...beneath it. So kneeling, face to face, she speaks with God. — Charlotte Bronte. INDIVIDUALITY. Emerson. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...is suicide ; that he must take himself for better or for worse, as his portion ; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil VOL. i. 11 p bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil VOL. I. 11 P bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...that he must take himself for better for worse as his poftion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself foLbetterT" for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of... | |
| William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 304 pages
...suicide ; that 18 he must take himself, for better, for worse, 14 as his portion ; that 18 though 16 the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but 16 through his toil bestowed" on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. 18 The power which... | |
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