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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... "
Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 342
1844
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The Auto Era, Volume 15

1915 - 376 pages
...actual use. There is no surer way of having this expectation realized than by owning a Winton Six. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion; that tho the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he ar15 rives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation...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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From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest

Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...origin of self-possessed subjectivity, the moment when every man must take himself as his portion: "There is a time in every man's education when he...arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion: that though the wide universe is full of...
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Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920

Anne Ruggles Gere - 1997 - 394 pages
...of a white middle-class group that had been reading Emerson. "Objection was raised to the statement 'There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide.' Other truths came up for discussion and were thrown in new lights."61 On...
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Emerson and the Climates of History

Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 pages
...self-reliance. "There is a time in every man's education," he writes in his essay "Self-Reliance," "when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide" (W, 2: 46). As Porter suggests, we should not be surprised that he shows "little patience with the...
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God in Concord: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Awakening to the Infinite

Richard G. Geldard - 1999 - 200 pages
...reading. An example of such a slide might be facing the difficulty of the following from "Self-Reliance": 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...
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美国文学学习指南

李翠亭, 李正栓 - 1998 - 264 pages
...yourself at least five reasons that the author gives ? 52* for going to live in the woods Passage 9 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide t that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion... Trust thy self; every heart vibrates...
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 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...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature

Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 pages
...New England; writers began to adopt Emerson's ideas. Let's look at these two works now. Self-Reliance "There is a time in every man's education when he...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." —from "Self-Reliance" This essay further elaborates on the familiar Emersonian thesis— Trust thyself...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 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...
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