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... Essays: First Series - Page 52by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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...toil bestowed 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 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 ignorance ; that 10 imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion ; that though... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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 V SELF-RELIANCE r that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for... | |
| Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 344 pages
...person, and envy takes possession of him. But "there is a time in every man's education," says Emerson, "when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;...but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground (himself) which is given to him to till. " 2 And this conviction must not be accompanied with self-reproach.... | |
| 1909 - 814 pages
...among them. One must come sooner or later to Emerson's conviction touching alien days and places, " that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;...better, for worse, as his portion; that though the universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed... | |
| 1909 - 838 pages
...among them. One must come sooner or later to Emerson's conviction touching alien days and places, " that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;...better, for worse, as his portion; that though the universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 588 pages
...1830. When a man has got to a certain point in his career of truth he becomes conscious forevermore that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that what he can get out of his plot of ground by the sweat of his brow is his meat, and though the wide... | |
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