 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
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...[Tjhough the wide universe is full of good, no kernal of nourishing corn can come to [a man] but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.26 Lest I be misunderstood, I need add that even in the essays Eliot wrote before The Waste Land... | |
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...ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion . . . The power which resides in him is new in nature, and...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. . . . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. ... No law can be sacred to me but that of my own... | |
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...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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. A GOOD SUGGESTION When I come across short statements of Truth in my reading... | |
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