 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...  Report - Page 163by New Hampshire. State Department of Health - 1887Full view - About this book
 | 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.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...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 ;...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must tues follow the same forms. It is a to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...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 ;...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...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 ;...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... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 pages
...conviction 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...on that plot of ground which is given him to till. EMERSON. The base wretch who hoards up all he can Is praised and called a careful, thrifty man. DBTDEN.... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 514 pages
...conviction 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...on that plot of ground which is given him to till. BBBMHC, Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse; Not more... | |
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