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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... "
Select Essays and Poems - Page 11
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pages
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Psychology of the Spoken Word

Delbert Moyer Staley - 1914 - 378 pages
...the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Scott. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...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 of nourishing...
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College Life, Its Conditions and Problems: A Selection of Essays for Use in ...

Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 pages
...all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a tune in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction...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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The Modern Course in English: English Grammar

Steadman Vincent Sanford, Peter Franklin Brown - 1914 - 362 pages
...Exercise The following sentences are selected from Emerson's Self Reliance. Parse the conjunctions : 1. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conclusion that envy is ignorance. 2. The eye is placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify...
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The Standard, Volume 2

1915 - 266 pages
...Sidney's maxim was, "Look in thv heart and write." Emerson's doctrine is, "Look in thy heart and act." "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. * * * The power that resides in him is new in nature. * * * Bravely let him...
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Ross's Business English

John Walter Ross - 1915 - 288 pages
...interest from his work and discount his chances for success do you want me to work for you 2. Emerson says there is a time in every man's education when he arrives...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 of nourishing...
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The Auto Era, Volume 15

1915 - 376 pages
...actual use. There is no surer way of having this expectation realized than by owning a Winton Six. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion; that tho the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn...
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Oral English: Or, The Art of Speaking

Antoinette Knowles - 1916 - 376 pages
...From Ralph Waldo Emerson: "There is a time in every man's experience when he arrives at the conclusion that envy is ignorance; 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 of nourishing...
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English and Engineering

Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 pages
...Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat, Wintered with the hawk and fox, Power and speed be hands and feet. THERE is a time in every man's education when he arrives...come "to him but through his toil bestowed on that 1 This essay was one of the First Series of Emerson's Essays, published in 1841 : the text as here...
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Under Sealed Orders

Hiram Alfred Cody - 1917 - 328 pages
...essay on Self-reliance, for there the pages were most thumb-marked. His eyes rested upon the words: "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance." He read on to the beginning of the next paragraph, "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron...
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Oral English and Public Speaking

Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1918 - 256 pages
...conclusion that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself, for better or for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe...corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed upon that plot of ground that is given him to till. The power that resides in him is new in nature,...
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