 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
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...inspires all men. nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot SELF-RELIANCE of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new "Ne te quaesiveris extra" in nature, and none but he knows what I read the other day some verses 20... | |
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...the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought because it is his. . . The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is that he can do, nor does he know until he has tried." "A spur on the head is worth two on the heels."... | |
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