 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
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 296 pages
...come to him but16 through his toil bestowed17 on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.18 The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but19 he knows what that is which he can do ; nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...represents somewhat of its nature no other person can express. Each person is to trust himself, because " the power which resides in him is new in nature ;...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried." 4 Emerson's doctrine of self-trust is really that .of. .Soultrust. It. depends on his doctrine of self-renunciation,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through ever hidden ! To breathe, to sleep, is wond thas tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another... | |
 | 1891 - 740 pages
...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried." DISCUSSION. M. A YARNELL: — There is a general opinion growing upon us that an inaugural address... | |
 | Benn Pitman - 1892 - 202 pages
...nourishing corn can come to-him but-through his toil bestowed on-that plot of ground which-is given tohim to till. The power' which resides in him is new in nature, and-none but he knows what-that-is which he-cando, nor does he know until' he-has tried. Not for-nothing... | |
 | 1894 - 596 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." The new graduate in medicine, who has just rented and furnished his first office, and is sitting and waiting... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1895 - 730 pages
...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried." Conceive an ideal of what you would be and bend to its attainment all the forces of your nature. Endeavor... | |
 | William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - 1895 - 358 pages
...he almost fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite." (3) Complex with complex: "The power which resides in him is new in nature,...can do, nor does he • know until he has tried." 384. From this it is evident that nothing new is added to the work of analysis already done. The same... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 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...The power which resides in him is . new in nature, and/none but he knows what that is which he can do ; nor does he know until he has tried.) Not for... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1899 - 288 pages
...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 ;...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. . . . Society everywhere is a conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. . . . Self-reliance... | |
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