 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...  The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation, - Page 50by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that 10 imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for...of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides 15 in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does... | |
 | David Washburn Wells - 1907 - 170 pages
...and previous habit. Emerson has said : " He must take himself for better for worse as his portion, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel...bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."1 The economic value of intellectual habits becomes apparent when it is understood that habits... | |
 | David Washburn Wells - 1907 - 172 pages
...education and previous habit. Emerson has said : "He must take himself for better for worse as his portion, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel...bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."1 The economic value of intellectual habits becomes apparent when it is understood that habits... | |
 | Katherine Jewell Everts - 1908 - 238 pages
...study — not with a pencil on paper. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation...of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction V SELF-RELIANCE r that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide;...of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him_is_new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation...of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does... | |
 | Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 340 pages
...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 ; that imitation...but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground (himself) which is given to him to till. " 2 And this conviction must not be accompanied with self-reproach.... | |
 | 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... | |
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