 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 44by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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,... | |
 | 1900 - 870 pages
...words again, though it contradici everything you said today. Else, tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...to take with shame our own opinion from another." A primary teacher must be hopeful of her material. We of course prefer children of great mental endowment,... | |
 | 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
...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 \vorse as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of... | |
 | Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 268 pages
...But, in my simple ignorance suppose The selfsame Power that brought me there brought you. — EMERSON. 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1901 - 226 pages
...most when x 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...to take with shame our own opinion from another." Accepting the opinions of another and the tastes of another is very different from agreement in opinion... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...precisely what we have 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 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... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 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 nourishing... | |
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