...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...

...five reasons that the author gives for going to live in the woods. There is a time in every man' s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. . . Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist....

...Suppose he were writing today. Would the above be fair and accurate? Why or why not? Self-Reliance "There is a time in every man's education when he...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature,...

...always remembered the text by Ralph Waldo Emerson used in the voice-over for Reebok's advertising: "There is a time in every man's education when he...imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better or worse . . . Insist on yourself. Never imitate." At the time, Chiat/Day had a reputation for being...

...means a refusal to be satisfied with the answers that others have handed over to us as authoritative: There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come...

...Gorky. Work <W For better or worse, each man must take himself as his portion. Though the wide world is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is his to till. - RW Emerson. «* Work is what we have to do; play is what we like to do. - Hans Selye....

...genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of...

...so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. 7. Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. 8. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide. 9. The state is made for the individual ; the individual is not made for the...

...not do so explicitly and come back to our selves on plainer, more focused terms? As Emerson insists: There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...for better, for worse, as his portion; that though this wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his own...

...for 15 minutes or half an hour. Unite with the One Power. -aJsIn "Self-Reliance," Emerson wrote: " There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...must take himself for better for worse as his portion ..." Of course envy is ignorance. If you're coveting somebody else's car, jewels, or promotion, you're...