 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, First Series - Page 44by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 522 pages
...though the wide universe is full of good, on 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." "Life only avails, not having lived." Good enough! "For every stoic was a stoic, but in Christendom,... | |
 | John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 pages
...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...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. With scornful denunciation Emerson dismisses the small virtues of conformity and consistency as evidences... | |
 | William George Hoffman - 1923 - 316 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. which resides in him is new in nature, and none but...which he can do : nor does he know until he has tried. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...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. — SELF-RELIANCE I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my... | |
 | Daniel Berkeley Updike - 1924 - 128 pages
...for better, for worse, as his portion; that 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." For when he begins thus to toil and to till, he releases for the first time that personal element which... | |
 | Clara Barrus - 1925 - 452 pages
...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed upon that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new...knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know it until he has tried. EMERSON OF the next epoch in the life of John Burroughs, the period from 1854... | |
 | Louis Wann - 1926 - 560 pages
...resorts. There it ground which is given to him to till. The is, that the musical powers of this hermit power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is force, because he cannot speak to you and which he can do, nor does he know until me. Hark! in the... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1160 pages
...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 35 till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...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 tUl. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...pIot~oTgr<3tmd which is gtvenTtb him to TT^ The power which resides in him is new in nature, and >ne but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does ; know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one laracter, one fact, makes much impression... | |
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