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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... "
Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing - Page 634
edited by - 2006 - 817 pages
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Compensation and Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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...
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Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870

Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2006 - 590 pages
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Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673–1968

Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2009 - 584 pages
...Genius oí architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. Thomas Jefferson (1781) There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841) 1. The Tradition of American Classicism Architectural theory in the United...
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Pragmatism: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Volume 2

Russell B. Goodman - 2005 - 398 pages
...conviction 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...
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AP English Language and Composition 2005: An Apex Learning Guide

Kaplan, Kaplan Publishing Staff - 2004 - 372 pages
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The God in You and the Law of the Higher Potential

Robert Collier - 2005 - 572 pages
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The Law of the Higher Potential How to Get What You Want

Robert Collier - 2005 - 732 pages
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African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and the ...

Arnetha F. Ball, Ted Lardner - 2005 - 256 pages
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The Adventures of a Happy Man

Channing Pollock - 2005 - 220 pages
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A River Worth Riding

Lynn Marie Sager - 2005 - 266 pages
...What an extraordinary definition of greatness—to be misunderstood. In the same essay, Emerson wrote: "There is a time in every man's education when he...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." Imagine realizing that whenever you feel envy, you are only demonstrating an ignorance of your own...
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