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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 of nourishing... "
Everybody's Writing-desk Book - Page 115
by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...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...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...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...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none hut he knows what that is...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...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...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...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...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is...
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Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion, Volume 1

1856 - 386 pages
...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...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 he can do, nor...
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