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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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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

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...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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A Book of American Literature

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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Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 172, Issue 2

1915 - 772 pages
...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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The Administration of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act: Hearings Before a ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Manpower and Housing Subcommittee - 1983 - 824 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. Trust thyself I he said] every heart vibrates to that iron string." Therefore here are the answers...
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American Romanticism and the Marketplace

Michael T. Gilmore - 2010 - 192 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" (CW 2 : 27-28). Emerson's affirmation of agrarian values indicates how close he is in some respects...
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Light From Many Lamps

Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 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. . . . Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence...
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How Does America Hear the Gospel?

William A. Dyrness - 1989 - 184 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" (176). In March 1845, Henry David Thoreau set out on what was to become a parable of American ideals....
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Emerson's Pragmatic Vision: The Dance of the Eye

David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 pages
...scope of individual labor, by knowing 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" (CW 2:28). At root, the ethics and politics of self-reliance depend on staying at home within the limits...
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American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition

Russell B. Goodman - 1990 - 182 pages
...within each man or woman lies a "genius," a unique capacity. As he later stated in "Self-Reliance": "The power which resides in him is new in nature,...is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.""1 True scholarship sets this genius free: discovering, developing, and relying on it. Emerson's...
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