| Social Circle in Concord - 1903 - 168 pages
...that imitation is suicide ; when he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; and know that though the wide universe is full of good, no...through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which it was given him to till." The matchless eloquence with which Emerson proclaimed the sovereignty of... | |
| Phineas Garrett - 1905 - 872 pages
...and disgrace follow. Cliapman. Time's current may wear wrinkles in the face, but not reach the heart. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation ia suicide ; that he must take himself for better or for worse, as his portion; thal, though the wide... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is igno, ranee ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion... | |
| Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1903 - 278 pages
...come. — LONGFELLOW. (6) There is a time in every man's experience when he arrives at the conclusion that envy is ignorance ; that imitation 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...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... | |
| Martha Adelaide Holton, Alice F. Rollins - 1904 - 144 pages
...many a time ; For I'm facing God's bright sunlight, And the shadow lies behind. — Annie Marie Bliss. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; and though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through... | |
| Salome Hocking - 1905 - 200 pages
...each man for all other men ; and sacrifice is the very essence of all true society." — LAMENNAIS. " There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...on that plot of ground which is given him to till." — EMERSON. " For (over and over again) there is nothing that is evil except because a man has not... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...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... | |
| 1905 - 778 pages
...if she had carried on the traditions of Christ's teachi»g, can hardly be imagined.—New Century. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...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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