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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... "
The New Practical Shorthand Manual: A Complete and Comprehensive Exposition ... - Page 147
by Benn Pitman - 1892 - 170 pages
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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...
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The Administration of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act: Hearings Before a ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Manpower and Housing Subcommittee - 1983 - 824 pages
...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 can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power...
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American Philosophy: A Historical Anthology

Barbara MacKinnon - 1985 - 710 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. Whoso would...
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American Romanticism and the Marketplace

Michael T. Gilmore - 2010 - 192 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" (CW 2 :...
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William James: Writings 1902-1910 (LOA #38): The Varieties of Religious ...

William James - 1988 - 1410 pages
...is suicide; when he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; and know 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 it was given him to till." The matchless...
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How Does America Hear the Gospel?

William A. Dyrness - 1989 - 184 pages
...but of goodness. Truth will come in our work, with our hands, and in our plot of ground: "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" (176). In...
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The Fourth Dimension: The Next Level of Personal and Organizational Achievement

Craig Hickman, Craig Bott, Marlon Berrett, Brad Angus - 1996 - 240 pages
...the he [she] must take himself [herself] for better, for worse, as his [her] portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him [her] but through his [her] toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him [her]...
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From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest

Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...envy is ignorance: 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 him to till" (Essays, 259)....
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