 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 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 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. Not for nothing one face, one character,... | |
 | Delbert Moyer Staley - 1914 - 378 pages
...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 universe is...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. Emerson. In the hush of the autumn night I hear the voice of the sea, In the hush of the... | |
 | 1917 - 598 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...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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. A GOOD... | |
 | Craig Hickman, Craig Bott, Marlon Berrett, Brad Angus - 1996 - 240 pages
...imitation is suicide; the he [she] must take himself [herself] for better, for worse, as his [her] portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him [her] but through his [her] toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him [her] to till.... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion: that though the wide universe is full...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till" (Essays, 259). The model of self-possessed individuality that results from Emerson's description... | |
 | Richard G. Geldard - 1999 - 200 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...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. In the context of an academic environment... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 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. Not for nothing one face, one character,... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 pages
...wrote relatively little poetry, he made up in impact what he lacked in bulk. for better or 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 concerns... | |
 | Wanda H. Ball, Pam Brewer - 2000 - 182 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...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,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 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. Not for nothing one face, one character,... | |
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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... 
