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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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The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal ..., Volume 40

1891 - 740 pages
...largely to give pupils power to think." I close with the following significant words from Emerson: "There is a time in every man's education when he...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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The Principles of Success in Literature

George Henry Lewes - 1891 - 182 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...time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our opinion from another." Accepting the opinions of another and the tastes of another is very different...
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With Friend and Book: In the Study and the Fields

John Rogers Rees - 1892 - 192 pages
...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...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another, f WILSON. — God deliver me from the faintest suspicion of genius ! I prefer the life I live, happy...
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Everybody's Writing-desk Book

Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 330 pages
...without punctuation marks, should not be encumbered with any. "The harvest moon is shining in the night." "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance." COMMA. 1. Three or more words of the same part of speech not connected by conjunctions are often separated...
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Everybody's Writing-desk Book

Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 328 pages
...conjunction, would read as an independent sentence. " There is a time in every man's education when ne 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 world is full of good, no kernel of nourishing...
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The Medical Fortnightly, Volumes 9-10

1896 - 762 pages
...essay on " Self-reliance," this much at least, " that a stranger with masterly good sense," has said, "precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we are forced to take with shame* our own opinions from another." The credit goes to the man who dared...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...the world, of bards and sages. 5 " Then most," ie, most at that time. row 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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Denver Medical Times: Utah Medical Journal. Nevada Medicine, Volume 14

1894 - 596 pages
...above referred to, we, while reading Emerson's essays on "self-reliance," culled the following gems: " 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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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides. — Pliny. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy ig ignorance. — Emerson. Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies ; and, conscious of its...
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The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures Gathered from Many Sources ...

1895 - 344 pages
...integrity of thine FALLBACK own mind. AUPONST 30- There is a time in every man's education miu1T1oN wnen 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. 31. How sad is his plight who has no sacred self; who never...
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