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" 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... "
Emerson - Page 5
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 303 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...opinion from another. 2. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide...is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do ; nor does he know until he...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide...is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 37

1844 - 450 pages
...old-fashioned virtue of content. " There is a time in every man's education, when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide,...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...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 37

1844 - 454 pages
...old-fashioned virtue of content. " There is a time in every man's education, when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide,...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...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide...is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;...is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...the Eternal was stirring There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;...is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide;...is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none hut he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide;...is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide...is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he...
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