| Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 pages
...conviction 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...on that plot of ground which is given him to till. EMERSON. The base wretch who hoards up all he can Is praised and called a careful, thrifty man. DBTDEN.... | |
| Alexander Melville Bell - 1887 - 276 pages
...trees which 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.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...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...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... | |
| 1891 - 728 pages
...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;...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 he can do,... | |
| Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 328 pages
...suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that, though the wide world is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...on that plot of ground which is given him to till." "The preacher assumes that judgment is not executed in this world ; that the wicked are successful... | |
| Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 330 pages
...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 world is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him hut through his toil bestowed on... | |
| Benn Pitman - 1892 - 202 pages
...imitation is' suicide ; that-he-musttake 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 tohim to till. The power'... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...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...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... | |
| 1894 - 596 pages
...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;...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." The new graduate in medicine, who has just rented and furnished his first office,... | |
| Paul Carus - 1895 - 730 pages
...in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide; that 'he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground... | |
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