 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 29by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1918 - 256 pages
...conclusion that envy is ignorance ; that imitation 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 corn can eoine to him but through his toil bestowed upon that plot of ground that is given him to till. The... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1918 - 258 pages
...of by their sisters. b. There is a time in every man's experience when he arrives at the conclusion that envy is ignorance ; that imitation 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... | |
 | 1919 - 692 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 arrives...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... | |
 | 1919 - 694 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... | |
 | Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe - 1921 - 296 pages
...to the minds and hearts of young people more eloquently than Emerson in his essay on SelfReliance. 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... | |
 | Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 522 pages
...certain alienated majesty." "There is a time in every man's education when be arrives at the conviction that he must take himself for better, for worse, as...portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, on kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which... | |
 | John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 pages
...and deserve the most careful study. In the former we come across such stimulating thoughts as these: 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... | |
 | Daniel Berkeley Updike - 1924 - 128 pages
...pass. "There is a time in every man's education," says Emerson, "when he arrives at the conviclion that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which... | |
 | Clara Barrus - 1925 - 452 pages
...the hills, but the Future beckoned. 1 Now Arkville. CHAPTER III THE WRITER IN EMBRYO ) ^ 1854-1863 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed upon that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature,... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1160 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinas ion from another. = = betjo ter for worse as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing... | |
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