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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... "
Everybody's Writing-desk Book - Page 115
by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pages
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Report, Volume 6

New Hampshire. State Department of Health - 1887 - 314 pages
...but of its little habits persisted in constantly." The child must be taught to learn this lesson, " take himself for 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...
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Report of the State Board of Health of the State of New Hampshire ..., Volume 6

1887 - 334 pages
...but of its little habits persisted in constantly." The child must be taught to learn this lesson, " take himself for 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...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...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...
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Classic Selections from the Best Authors

Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 456 pages
...Nature's universal song Echoes to the rising day. O HORRiBLE! O horrible! most horrible! Hamlet. TMsfcs is a time In every man's education when he arrives at the conviction tnat envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself, for better or for worse,...
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The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal ..., Volume 40

1891 - 728 pages
...largely to give pupils power to think." I close with the following significant words from Emerson: "There is a time in every man's education when he...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...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...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...
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Denver Medical Times: Utah Medical Journal. Nevada Medicine, Volume 14

1894 - 596 pages
...above referred to, we, while reading Emerson's essays on "self-reliance," culled the following gems: " 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...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides. — Pliny. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy ig ignorance. — Emerson. Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies ; and, conscious of its...
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The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures Gathered from Many Sources ...

1895 - 344 pages
...integrity of thine FALLBACK own mind. AUPONST 30- There is a time in every man's education miu1T1oN wnen he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. 31. How sad is his plight who has no sacred self; who never falls back on a conviction, as a believer...
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The Inland Educator: A Journal for the Progressive Teacher, Volumes 5-6

1897 - 880 pages
...anything upon your work which will make it unnatural or hateful to you." Wise advice! Emerson says, "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction . . . . that imitation is suicide." # » # Emerson speaks of the "forced smile," and says of it: "The muscles not...
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