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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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Follow Your Bliss: Discovering Your Inner Calling and Right Livelihood

Hal Zina Bennett, Susan Sparrow - 2004 - 240 pages
...and its machinations. But the Inner Self can be awakened and given new life at virtually any time. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel or nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given...
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Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673–1968

Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2009 - 584 pages
...Genius oí architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. Thomas Jefferson (1781) There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841) 1. The Tradition of American Classicism Architectural theory in the United...
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A River Worth Riding

Lynn Marie Sager - 2005 - 266 pages
...What an extraordinary definition of greatness—to be misunderstood. In the same essay, Emerson wrote: "There is a time in every man's education when he...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." Imagine realizing that whenever you feel envy, you are only demonstrating an ignorance of your own...
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Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pages
...stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. ~ Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850 ~ There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better for worse as his portion. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 ~ Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to...
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美国文学学习指南

2006 - 364 pages
...five reasons that the author gives for going to live in the woods. There is a time in every man' s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. . . Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist....
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Daily Warm-Ups: CRITICAL THINKING - Level 2

2007 - 220 pages
...Suppose he were writing today. Would the above be fair and accurate? Why or why not? Self-Reliance "There is a time in every man's education when he...nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature,...
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How Disruption Brought Order: The Story of a Winning Strategy in the World ...

Jean-Marie Dru - 2007 - 276 pages
...always remembered the text by Ralph Waldo Emerson used in the voice-over for Reebok's advertising: "There is a time in every man's education when he...imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better or worse . . . Insist on yourself. Never imitate." At the time, Chiat/Day had a reputation for being...
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Neopragmatism and Theological Reason

G. W. Kimura - 2007 - 188 pages
...means a refusal to be satisfied with the answers that others have handed over to us as authoritative: 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 the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come...
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Rough-hewn

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 530 pages
...genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of...
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Explorations in Personality

the late Henry A. Murray - 2007 - 811 pages
...so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. 7. Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. 8. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide. 9. The state is made for the individual ; the individual is not made for the...
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