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
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