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" 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 of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil "
The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes - Page 241
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870
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Medical Standard, Volume 36

1913 - 526 pages
...the jury. * * ยป ''There is a time in every man's education,'' says Emerson, "when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation...suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse for his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841 - 408 pages
...shame our 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...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...shame our 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...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...shame our 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...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...perception that 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...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...shame our 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...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...shame our 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...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...shame our 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...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...shame our 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...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 [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...shame our 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...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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