 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 115by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1909 - 540 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... | |
 | Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 344 pages
...person, and envy takes possession of him. But "there is a time in every man's education," says Emerson, "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... | |
 | 1909 - 838 pages
...among them. One must come sooner or later to Emerson's conviction touching alien days and places, " that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;...better, for worse, as his portion; that though the universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed... | |
 | 1909 - 814 pages
...among them. One must come sooner or later to Emerson's conviction touching alien days and places, " that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;...better, for worse, as his portion; that though the universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 588 pages
...1830. 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. 2. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imi10 tation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though... | |
 | Henry Evarts Gordon - 1911 - 332 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... | |
 | Katherine Jewell Everts - 1911 - 356 pages
...whom the universe has dedicated its whole pleasure for us." Analyze vocally the following paragraph: 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 196 pages
...mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. Self Reliance. T HERE 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... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 446 pages
...vigorous, and intended to reach the attention through the ear. For instance, he says in this essay : — " There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion." Before we have finished Self-Reliance, he has made us feel that, with the exercise of self-trust, new... | |
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