 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 nourishing...  Essays - Page 46by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 613 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 522 pages
...certain alienated majesty." "There is a time in every man's education when be arrives at the conviction that he must take himself for better, for worse, as...portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, on kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...1 here 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...that plot of ground which is given to him to till. — SELF-RELIANCE I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my... | |
 | Daniel Berkeley Updike - 1924 - 128 pages
...pass. "There is a time in every man's education," says Emerson, "when he arrives at the conviclion that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Reclamation - 1987 - 450 pages
...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...corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed upon that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1160 pages
...conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for betjo ter y this duality of life, I first read Dr. Wigan on...could train one side of my head to do these outside 35 till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...wide unispired by the Divine Soul which also verse is full of good, no kernel of 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... | |
 | Walter P. Davisson - 1927 - 350 pages
...education when hj arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide . . . that no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his own toil, bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till." — EMERSON. SOMEONE has written:... | |
 | National Fraternal Congress of America - 1928 - 388 pages
...conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till." — Emerson. The above quotation is equally applicable to Fraternal societies as to the... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pages
...man." "When a man has got to a certain point in his career of truth he becomes conscious forevermore that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that what he can get out of his plot of ground by the sweat of his brow is his meat, and though the wide... | |
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