Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 2by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides. — Pliny. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy ig ignorance. — Emerson. Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies ; and, conscious of its... | |
| 1895 - 344 pages
...integrity of thine FALLBACK own mind. AUPONST 30- There is a time in every man's education miu1T1oN wnen he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. 31. How sad is his plight who has no sacred self; who never falls back on a conviction, as a believer... | |
| Paul Carus - 1895 - 730 pages
...before he can create." But do not be content to remain in the first stage. As Emerson tells us : " There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide; that 'he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though... | |
| 1897 - 880 pages
...anything upon your work which will make it unnatural or hateful to you." Wise advice! Emerson says, "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction . . . . that imitation is suicide." # » # Emerson speaks of the "forced smile," and says of it: "The muscles not... | |
| Jonathan Rigdon - 1896 - 280 pages
...and sense unknown, That life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own. — Whittier. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...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... | |
| William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 pages
...exile, or be a poor man, or a rich? For all these conditions I will be thy advocate among men Epictetus. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn... | |
| Martha B. Mosher - 1898 - 254 pages
...re-discover, else as Emerson says, " Tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...to take with shame our own opinion from another." The child's knowledge is not large enough, his power of thought is not mature enough to create perfect... | |
| 1899 - 704 pages
...current when it serves, / Or lose our ventures, /и/. Oí., iv. 3. There is a time for all things. /V. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy :s ignorance. Emerson. There is a time of life beyond which we cannot form a tie worth the name of... | |
| 1901 - 814 pages
...complete answer will receive 10 credits. Papers 'ntitled to 73 or more credits will be accepted. \ There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the con•ic-tion that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take \imself, for better,... | |
| Lillian Kimball Stewart - 1900 - 266 pages
...out again, romance remained behind to dwell forever in Port Royal's placid basin. — Bolles. 107. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide. — Emerson. 108. Now to Baloo's word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a... | |
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