 Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with...  The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 45by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1899 - 704 pages
...current when it serves, / Or lose our ventures, /и/. Oí., iv. 3. There is a time for all things. /V. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy :s ignorance. Emerson. There is a time of life beyond which we cannot form a tie worth the name of... | |
 | 1901 - 814 pages
...complete answer will receive 10 credits. Papers 'ntitled to 73 or more credits will be accepted. \ There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the con•ic-tion that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take \imself, for better,... | |
 | 1900 - 682 pages
...tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. Else, tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...to take with shame our own opinion from another." A primary teacher must be hopeful of her material. We of course prefer chiYdren of great mental endowment,... | |
 | Lillian Kimball Stewart - 1900 - 266 pages
...out again, romance remained behind to dwell forever in Port Royal's placid basin. — Bolles. 107. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide. — Emerson. 108. Now to Baloo's word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...suicide; that he must take himself for better for \vorse as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1901 - 226 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when x the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...to take with shame our own opinion from another." Accepting the opinions of another and the tastes of another is very different from agreement in opinion... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...precisely what we have thought and felt all tlie time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our opinion from another. There is a time in every man's...arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that so imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion ; that though... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is igno, ranee ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion... | |
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