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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... "
History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar - Page 42
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 180 pages
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Putnam's & the Reader, Volume 5

1909 - 814 pages
...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till." Italy is no playground for the worn women who climb the cliff paths with baskets of compost....
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Putnam's Monthly and the Reader, Volume 5

1909 - 838 pages
...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till." Italy is no playground for the worn women who climb the cliff paths with baskets of compost....
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...envy is ignorance; that imi10 tation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is...to him to till. The power which resides in him is 15 new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has...
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Vocal Expression in Speech: A Treatise on the Fundamentals of Public ...

Henry Evarts Gordon - 1911 - 332 pages
...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...resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character,...
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Vocal Expression: A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation

Katherine Jewell Everts - 1911 - 356 pages
...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...resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. . . . What I must do is all that...
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The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Being Extracts from His Prose and Verse

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 196 pages
...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...resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Self Reliance. WHY should we make...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...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...of ground which is given to him to till. The power 10 which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does...
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The American Educational Review: A Monthly Review of the Progress ..., Volume 33

1912 - 808 pages
...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 a kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed upon that plot of ground...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through 10 his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is...resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character,...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...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...kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through 10 his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides...
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