...genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of...

...so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. 7. Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. 8. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide. 9. The state is made for the individual ; the individual is not made for the...

...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed...

...not do so explicitly and come back to our selves on plainer, more focused terms? As Emerson insists: There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...for better, for worse, as his portion; that though this wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his own...

...for 15 minutes or half an hour. Unite with the One Power. -aJsIn "Self-Reliance," Emerson wrote: " There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...must take himself for better for worse as his portion ..." Of course envy is ignorance. If you're coveting somebody else's car, jewels, or promotion, you're...

...attack on imitation in all of its varieties. "There is a time in every man's education," he writes, "when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;...better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed...