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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... "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pages
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Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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 at the conviction V SELF-RELIANCE r that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for...
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Putnam's Monthly and the Reader, Volume 5

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...
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Putnam's & the Reader, Volume 5

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...
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Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With Annotations, Volume 2

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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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say 6 with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...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...
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History of American Literature

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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The American Educational Review: A Monthly Review of the Progress ..., Volume 33

1912 - 808 pages
...acquainted with the country through having liad the good luck sometimes to lose his way. — SMILES. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...portion; that though the wide universe is full of good a kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed upon that plot of ground...
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English Journal, Volume 8

1919 - 496 pages
...selections beginning: "What I must do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think," and "There is a time in every man's education when he...that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide." But the pupils were not allowed to stop with mere mechanical memorizing, but were asked to illustrate...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. S There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through 10 his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides...
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Psychology of the Spoken Word

Delbert Moyer Staley - 1914 - 378 pages
...the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Scott. 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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