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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 of... "
Essays, First Series - Page 44
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pages
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Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert ...

1899 - 136 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. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best ; but what he has...
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In Search of a Soul: A Series of Essays in Interpretation of the Higher ...

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 ; and none 142 but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. . . . Society everywhere...
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English Grammar

Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 268 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. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 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...resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows \vhat that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character,...
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Introductory Lessons in English Literature: For High Schools and Academies

Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...come to him but through his toil on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which 35 resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows...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...
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Public Speaking: A Treatise on Delivery : with Selections for Declaiming

Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1903 - 278 pages
...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, and none but he knows...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Therefore, my text is, Trust thyself. Is it not an iron string to which vibrates every heart ? —...
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Evolution of Expression, Volume 1

Charles Wesley Emerson - 1905 - 138 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. 5. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none....
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The Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 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. C£ Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and 2 another none....
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The Metaphysical Magazine, Volumes 18-19

1905 - 778 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...is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.—Ralph Waldo Emerson. After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the...
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An Emerson Calendar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 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 APRIL APRIL FIRST T OVE, and you shall be loved. All love is mathe1 -* matically just,...
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