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
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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