 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...  Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 3421844Full view - About this book
 | Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 328 pages
...conjunction, would read as an independent sentence. " There is a time in every man's education when ne arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that, though the wide world is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through... | |
 | Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 330 pages
...without punctuation marks, should not be encumbered with any. "The harvest moon is shining in the night." "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance." COMMA. 1. Three or more words of the same part of speech not connected by conjunctions are often separated... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1895 - 730 pages
...before he can create." But do not be content to remain in the first stage. As Emerson tells us : " There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide; that 'he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though... | |
 | 1896 - 374 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...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... | |
 | 1896 - 234 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...must 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... | |
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