 | John Daniel Morell - 1857 - 70 pages
...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 nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. To prayer,... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...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 corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...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 nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil VOL. i. 11 p bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...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 nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil VOL. I. 11 P bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...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 nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better for worse as his poftion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 296 pages
...suicide ; that 13 he must take himself, for better, for worse, 14 as his portion ; that 1s though 16 the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but 16 through his toil bestowed 17 on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. 1s... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1878 - 254 pages
...are most richly laden with fruit, bend downward, and hang lowest. INDUSTRY. — Emerson. Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to a man, but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. INNOCENCE.... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1878 - 254 pages
...are most richly laden with fruit, bend downward, and hang lowest. INDUSTRY. — Emerscm. Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to a man, but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. INNOCENCE.... | |
 | Young people - 1882 - 608 pages
...continents of truth." Youth is the sowing time. The mind is every man's fair seed field; and, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to any man but through the toil and tillage bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to everyone... | |
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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 of nourishing... 
