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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... "
Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 342
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Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920

Anne Ruggles Gere - 1997 - 394 pages
...of a white middle-class group that had been reading Emerson. "Objection was raised to the statement 'There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide.' Other truths came up for discussion and were thrown in new lights."61 On...
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Emerson and the Climates of History

Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 pages
...self-reliance. "There is a time in every man's education," he writes in his essay "Self-Reliance," "when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide" (W, 2: 46). As Porter suggests, we should not be surprised that he shows "little patience with the...
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The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip ...

Thomas Frank - 1997 - 336 pages
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Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, Volumes 5-6

2001 - 418 pages
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God in Concord: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Awakening to the Infinite

Richard G. Geldard - 1999 - 200 pages
...reading. An example of such a slide might be facing the difficulty of the following from "Self-Reliance": There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through...
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Beyond Religion: A Personal Program for Building a Spiritual Life Outside ...

David N. Elkins - 1998 - 324 pages
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美国文学学习指南

李翠亭, 李正栓 - 1998 - 264 pages
...yourself at least five reasons that the author gives ? 52* for going to live in the woods Passage 9 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide t that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion... Trust thy self; every heart vibrates...
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Woman Sense: Selections from a Vintage Column

Pura Santillan Castrence - 1998 - 386 pages
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through...
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Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

Gordon T. Smith - 2009 - 208 pages
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