 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
 | Wayne W. Dyer - 2010 - 482 pages
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 | Thomas Frank - 1997 - 336 pages
...any other document of the decade." chapter four THREE REBELS: ADVERTISING NARRATIVES OF THE SIXTIES There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suiciae, that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion. Insist on yourself. Never imitate.... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...origin of self-possessed subjectivity, the moment when every man must take himself as his portion: "There is a time in every man's education when he...arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion: that though the wide universe is full of... | |
 | Anne Ruggles Gere - 1997 - 394 pages
...of a white middle-class group that had been reading Emerson. "Objection was raised to the statement 'There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide.' Other truths came up for discussion and were thrown in new lights."61 On... | |
 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 pages
...self-reliance. "There is a time in every man's education," he writes in his essay "Self-Reliance," "when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide" (W, 2: 46). As Porter suggests, we should not be surprised that he shows "little patience with the... | |
 | Thomas Frank - 1997 - 336 pages
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 | David N. Elkins - 1998 - 324 pages
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 | 李翠亭, 李正栓 - 1998 - 264 pages
...yourself at least five reasons that the author gives ? 52* for going to live in the woods Passage 9 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide t that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion... Trust thy self; every heart vibrates... | |
 | Bruce Jenner - 1999 - 280 pages
...inferiority, and you're sentencing yourself to failure and eventual shame. As Emerson wrote: "Tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...to take with shame our own opinion from another." Author Erskine Caldwell saw the gleam of light at twenty-six so strongly that he quit his stable newspaper... | |
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