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
| William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 296 pages
...you will not grudge to wander 1 in such neighborhood for a while. VI. From Emerson's "Self-Reliance." There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that 1s envy is ignorance 1s ; that imitation is suicide ; that 13 he must take himself, for better, for... | |
| William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 296 pages
...you will not grudge to wander1 in such neighborhood for a while. VI. From Emerson's "Self-Reliance." There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that18 envy is ignorance18 ; that imitation is suicide ; that18 he must take himself, for better, for... | |
| Alexander Melville Bell - 1878 - 254 pages
...trees which are most richly laden with fruit, bend downward, and hang lowest. INDUSTRY. — Emerson. Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to a man, but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. INNOCENCE.... | |
| Alexander Melville Bell - 1878 - 254 pages
...trees which are most richly laden with fruit, bend downward, and hang lowest. INDUSTRY. — Emerscm. Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to a man, but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. INNOCENCE.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 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...universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing com can come to him but througli his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to... | |
| Young people - 1882 - 608 pages
...explore new continents of truth." Youth is the sowing time. The mind is every man's fair seed field; and, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to any man but through the toil and tillage bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to everyone... | |
| Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 524 pages
...to be good: Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. SWOT. TENNTSON. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...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... | |
| Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 pages
...be good: Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. SWOT. TsNirrsoif. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...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... | |
| Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 514 pages
...to be good: Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. SW1JT. TENSYSON. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...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... | |
| New Hampshire. State Department of Health - 1887 - 314 pages
...but of its little habits persisted in constantly." The child must be taught to learn this lesson, " take himself for better, for worse, as his portion...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till." Hence he must be led to understand that labor is a necessity from a physical as well... | |
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