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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... "
Select Essays and Poems - Page 29
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pages
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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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Everybody's Writing-desk 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;...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 his toil bestowed on...
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Everybody's Writing-desk Book

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...
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The New Practical Shorthand Manual: A Complete and Comprehensive Exposition ...

Benn Pitman - 1892 - 202 pages
...imitation is' suicide ; that-he-musttake 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 on-that plot of ground which-is given tohim to till. The power'...
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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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The Monist, Volume 5

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...
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English Grammar for the Common School

Jonathan Rigdon - 1896 - 280 pages
...and sense unknown, That life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own. — Whittier. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...is suicide ; that he must take himself, for better or for worse, as his portion ; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing...
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The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress, Volume 13

William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 pages
...exile, or be a poor man, or a rich? For all these conditions I will be thy advocate among men Epictetus. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn...
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