...selections beginning: "What I must do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think," and "There is a time in every man's education when he...that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide." But the pupils were not allowed to stop with mere mechanical memorizing, but were asked to illustrate...

...to the minds and hearts of young people more eloquently than Emerson in his essay on SelfReliance. 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...

...is on the other side. 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 opinion from another." Accepting the opinions of another and the tastes of another is very different...

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...and deserve the most careful study. In the former we come across such stimulating thoughts as these: 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...

...is on the other side. Else tomorrow 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. which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do : nor does...

...is on the other side. 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 opinion from another." Accepting the opinions of another and the tastes of another is very different...

...pass. "There is a time in every man's education," says Emerson, "when he arrives at the conviclion that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which...

...your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standards. But there is a Jk time in each man's education when he arrives at the conviction...imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better or for worse. All men preen themselves on the improvement of society and no man improves. Society never...

...is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...take with shame our own opinion from another. There are several important ideas in this passage, but they are not developed by Emerson, only mentioned...