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" 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... "
Essays: First Series - Page 44
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pages
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Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion, Volume 1

1856 - 386 pages
...— yet " to this conclusion do we come at last," — that man is turned back upon himself. Goethe. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...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 nourishing...
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A series of graduated exercises adapted to Morel's Grammar and analysis

John Daniel Morell - 1857 - 70 pages
...tendency of that passion to bring to ruin the power and the greatness which it seeks so madly to increase. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...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...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, .andjee. „ shall^ be_forced to take jvith shame OUT own opinion from another. .There is a time in...
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A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice

M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...beneath it. So kneeling, face to face, she speaks with God. — Charlotte Bronte. INDIVIDUALITY. Emerson. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...that imitation 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...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...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...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...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...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...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...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better for worse as his poftion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing...
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Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools

William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 296 pages
...you will not grudge to wander 1 in such neighborhood for a while. VI. From Emerson's "Self-Reliance." There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that 1s envy is ignorance 1s ; that imitation is suicide ; that 13 he must take himself, for better, for...
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Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools

William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 296 pages
...you will not grudge to wander1 in such neighborhood for a while. VI. From Emerson's "Self-Reliance." There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that18 envy is ignorance18 ; that imitation is suicide ; that18 he must take himself, for better, for...
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