 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 3421844Full view - About this book
 | Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2009 - 584 pages
...Genius oí architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. Thomas Jefferson (1781) There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841) 1. The Tradition of American Classicism Architectural theory in the United... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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... | |
 | Lynn Marie Sager - 2005 - 266 pages
...What an extraordinary definition of greatness—to be misunderstood. In the same essay, Emerson wrote: "There is a time in every man's education when he...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." Imagine realizing that whenever you feel envy, you are only demonstrating an ignorance of your own... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pages
...stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. ~ Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850 ~ There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better for worse as his portion. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 ~ Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to... | |
 | Marc Woodworth - 2006 - 172 pages
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