...man." "When a man has got to a certain point in his career of truth he becomes conscious forevermore that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that what he can get out of his plot of ground by the sweat of his brow is his meat, and though the wide...

...farmers does not prove valuable on the plot of ground which has been given to me to till. "There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on the plot of ground which...

...quality called selfreliance. iP the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson (from the essay "Self-Reli«nce") : "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is lgnorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;...

...Ralph Waltlo Emerson set up a number of guideposls that I have found useful. For instance, he said. "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...

...teach you. 7. Luke 9:53. 8. Mark 8:36-37. 9. George Herbert, "The Elixir," lines 1-4, 13-16. 10. Cf. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction . . . that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion" ("Self-Reliance," CW 2:27-28). See also...

...us in his essay "Self-Reliance," "There is a time in every man's [woman's] education when he [she] arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; the he [she] must take himself [herself] for better, for worse, as his [her] portion; that though the...

...any other document of the decade." chapter four THREE REBELS: ADVERTISING NARRATIVES OF THE SIXTIES 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. Insist on yourself. Never imitate. . . . Society everywhere is in a conspiracy...

...any other document of the decade." chapter four THREE REBELS: ADVERTISING NARRATIVES OF THE SIXTIES There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suiciae, that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion. Insist on yourself. Never imitate....

...origin of self-possessed subjectivity, the moment when every man must take himself as his portion: "There is a time in every man's education when he...arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion: that though the wide universe is full of...

...of a white middle-class group that had been reading Emerson. "Objection was raised to the statement 'There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide.' Other truths came up for discussion and were thrown in new lights."61 On...