 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 or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing...  English Grammar - Page 172by Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 209 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1919 - 694 pages
...selections beginning: "What I must do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think," and "There is a time in every man's education when he...that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide." But the pupils were not allowed to stop with mere mechanical memorizing, but were asked to illustrate... | |
 | Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe - 1921 - 296 pages
...to the minds and hearts of young people more eloquently than Emerson in his essay on SelfReliance. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn... | |
 | John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 pages
...and deserve the most careful study. In the former we come across such stimulating thoughts as these: There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn... | |
 | Daniel Berkeley Updike - 1924 - 128 pages
...pass. "There is a time in every man's education," says Emerson, "when he arrives at the conviclion that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1160 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinas ion from another. = = betjo ter for worse as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing... | |
 | Everett Dean Martin - 1926 - 344 pages
...your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standards. But there is a Jk time in each man's education when he arrives at the conviction...imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better or for worse. All men preen themselves on the improvement of society and no man improves. Society never... | |
 | James Truslow Adams - 1926 - 484 pages
...self-development and self-reliance as we find in the essay by that title rang like trumpet calls to a new life. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide" ; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "My life... | |
 | James Truslow Adams - 1926 - 482 pages
...self-development and self-reliance as we find in the essay by that title rang like trumpet calls to a new life. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide" ; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "My life... | |
 | Walter P. Davisson - 1927 - 350 pages
...following essays on "The Pool Way." THE SEED-BED! "There is a time in every man's education when h*i arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide . . . that no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his own toil, bestowed on that plot of ground... | |
 | National Fraternal Congress of America - 1928 - 388 pages
...that it is in the proceedings. WHAT ARE THE INSURANCE BENEFITS BEST SUITED TO FRATERNAL SOCIETIES? "There is a time in every man's education when he...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn... | |
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