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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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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2007 - 240 pages
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Under Sealed Orders

Hiram Alfred Cody - 2007 - 240 pages
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Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie ...

Randy Boyagoda - 2008 - 143 pages
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Explorations in Personality

the late Henry A. Murray - 2007 - 811 pages
...so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. 7. Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. 8. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide. 9. The state is made for the individual ; the individual is not made for the...
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Rough-hewn

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 530 pages
...genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of...
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Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1824-1832

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2007 - 568 pages
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English Prose

Frederick William Roe - 2008 - 504 pages
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Emerson: Political Writings

Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 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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Imitation and Education: A Philosophical Inquiry into Learning by Example

Bryan R. Warnick - 2009 - 180 pages
...attack on imitation in all of its varieties. "There is a time in every man's education," he writes, "when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till" (1841/1982, p. 176). He echoes Rousseau's sentiments that imitation is an alienation...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2008 - 276 pages
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