...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...

...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...

...New England; writers began to adopt Emerson's ideas. Let's look at these two works now. Self-Reliance "There is a time in every man's education when he...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." —from "Self-Reliance" This essay further elaborates on the familiar Emersonian thesis— Trust thyself...

...conviction 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."11 The matchless eloquence with which Emerson proclaimed the sovereignty...

...Menschen, und beschwörend hebt er die Bedeutung dieser Wahrnehmung der eigenen Originalität hervor: „There is a time in every man's education when he...suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, äs his portion; that though the wilde universe is füll of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...

...quotations (imitation is suicide), when embedded just in the immediate context of his own nuanced utterance: "There is a time in every man's education when he...corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on the plot of ground which is given him to till." ("Self-Reliance" in Emerson 1985, 176) But this time...

...and its machinations. But the Inner Self can be awakened and given new life at virtually any time. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel or nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given...

...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...

...conviction 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...

...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...