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" 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... "
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by New Hampshire. State Department of Health - 1887
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Literary Interpretations, Or, A Guide to the Teaching and Reading of ...

1896 - 234 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...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 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...
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English Grammar for the Common School

Jonathan Rigdon - 1896 - 280 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. Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse ; Not...
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The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress, Volume 13

William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 pages
...conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe...on that plot of ground which is given him to till. — Emerson. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you...
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Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert ...

1899 - 136 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. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best...
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...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;...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...
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Bulletin

1901 - 818 pages
...suicide ; that he must take \imself, for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide unirerse is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but ;hrough his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. Select from the above...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for \vorse as his portion ; that though the wide universe is...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 \vhat that is...
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Introductory Lessons in English Literature: For High Schools and Academies

Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...conviction that envy is ignorance ; that so imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion ; that though the wide universe...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which 35 resides in him is new in nature,...
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So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 64 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...
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