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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... "
Report of the State Board of Health of the State of New Hampshire. v. 6, 1887 - Page 145
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Readings from American Literature: A Textbook for Schools and Colleges

Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 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." l While due allowance, therefore, should be made for Emerson's reluctance to advertise...
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Ross's Business English

John Walter Ross - 1915 - 288 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. universe...bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to toil. ephone for her physician she apologized for asking him to come such a distance don't speak of...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...when he ar15 rives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion;...but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground 20 which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he...
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The Boy Scout Movement Applied by the Church

Norman Egbert Richardson, Ormond Eros Loomis - 1915 - 516 pages
...nature who will continually keep in his own mind and, in the words of Emerson, make the boy realize that, "Though the wide universe is full of good, no...on that plot of ground which is given him to till"; that "The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he...
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The Boy Scout Movement Applied by the Church

Norman Egbert Richardson, Ormond Eros Loomis - 1915 - 510 pages
...nature who will continually keep in his own mind and, in the words of Emerson, make the boy realize that, "Though the wide universe is full of good, no...on that plot of ground which is given him to till"; that "The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he...
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The Auto Era, Volume 15

1915 - 376 pages
...that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion; that tho the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but thru his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. — Emerson. Past New...
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Practice Book: Leland Powers School

Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 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 power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is...
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Oral English: Or, The Art of Speaking

Antoinette Knowles - 1916 - 376 pages
...conclusion 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 universe...corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed upon that plot of ground that is given him to till. The power that resides in him is new in nature,...
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T. S. Eliot: The Modernist in History

Ronald Bush - 1991 - 232 pages
.... . . [Tjhough the wide universe is full of good, no kernal of nourishing corn can come to [a man] but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.26 Lest I be misunderstood, I need add that even in the essays Eliot wrote before The...
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