 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...  An American Bible - Page 168edited by - 1918 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1909 - 814 pages
...among them. One must come sooner or later to Emerson's conviction touching alien days and places, " that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;...better, for worse, as his portion; that though the universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 588 pages
...1830. 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. 2. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imi10 tation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though... | |
 | Katherine Jewell Everts - 1911 - 356 pages
...whom the universe has dedicated its whole pleasure for us." Analyze vocally the following paragraph: There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is... | |
 | Henry Evarts Gordon - 1911 - 332 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 196 pages
...mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. Self Reliance. T HERE is a time in every man's education when he arrives...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrive at s the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power 10 which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 446 pages
...vigorous, and intended to reach the attention through the ear. For instance, he says in this essay : — " There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion." Before we have finished Self-Reliance, he has made us feel that, with the exercise of self-trust, new... | |
 | 1912 - 808 pages
...acquainted with the country through having liad the good luck sometimes to lose his way. — SMILES. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...portion; that though the wide universe is full of good a kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed upon that plot of ground... | |
 | 1919 - 496 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... | |
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