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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... "
The New Practical Shorthand Manual: A Complete and Comprehensive Exposition ... - Page 147
by Benn Pitman - 1892 - 170 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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 bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...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 bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...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 bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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 bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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 bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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 bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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 bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...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 bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...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 bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power...
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Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion, Volume 1

1856 - 386 pages
...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 bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which...
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