 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, orations and lectures - Page 26by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. S There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through 10 his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides... | |
 | Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - 1914 - 400 pages
...into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you." — EMERSON, Behavior. 11. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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