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" Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. "
The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 2
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. 2. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 37

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...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 37

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...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. Trust thyself: every heart vilmrtes to that iron string. Accept the place the Divine Providencafhas...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...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...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, .andjee. „ shall^ be_forced to take jvith shame OUT own opinion from another. .There is a time in every...at the conviction that .envy is ignorance,, ; that r imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though...
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A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice

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...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...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...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say \vith masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...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...
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Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools

William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 296 pages
...you will not grudge to wander 1 in such neighborhood for a while. VI. From Emerson's "Self-Reliance." There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that 1s envy is ignorance 1s ; that imitation is suicide ; that 13 he must take himself, for better, for...
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