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 of... An Emerson Calendar - Page 29by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 117 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1897 - 880 pages
...anything upon your work which will make it unnatural or hateful to you." Wise advice! Emerson says, "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction . . . . that imitation is suicide." # » # Emerson speaks of the "forced smile," and says of it: "The muscles not... | |
| Paul Carus - 1895 - 730 pages
...before he can create." But do not be content to remain in the first stage. As Emerson tells us : " There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide; that 'he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though... | |
| Jonathan Rigdon - 1896 - 280 pages
...and sense unknown, That life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own. — Whittier. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...is suicide ; that he must take himself, for better or for worse, as his portion ; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing... | |
| William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 pages
...exile, or be a poor man, or a rich? For all these conditions I will be thy advocate among men Epictetus. 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 though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn... | |
| 1899 - 704 pages
...current when it serves, / Or lose our ventures, /и/. Oí., iv. 3. There is a time for all things. /V. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy :s ignorance. Emerson. There is a time of life beyond which we cannot form a tie worth the name of... | |
| 1901 - 814 pages
...complete answer will receive 10 credits. Papers 'ntitled to 73 or more credits will be accepted. \ There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the con•ic-tion that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take \imself, for better,... | |
| Lillian Kimball Stewart - 1900 - 266 pages
...out again, romance remained behind to dwell forever in Port Royal's placid basin. — Bolles. 107. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide. — Emerson. 108. Now to Baloo's word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 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...suicide; that he must take himself for better for \vorse as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn... | |
| Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...thought and felt all tlie time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that so imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion ; that though... | |
| Social Circle in Concord - 1903 - 168 pages
...that imitation is suicide ; when he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; and know that though the wide universe is full of good, no...through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which it was given him to till." The matchless eloquence with which Emerson proclaimed the sovereignty of... | |
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