 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 ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing...  Everybody's Writing-desk Book - Page 115by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1878 - 254 pages
...richly laden with fruit, bend downward, and hang lowest. INDUSTRY. — Emerscm. Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to a man, but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. INNOCENCE.... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1878 - 254 pages
...richly laden with fruit, bend downward, and hang lowest. INDUSTRY. — Emerson. Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to a man, but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. INNOCENCE.... | |
 | Young people - 1882 - 608 pages
...truth." Youth is the sowing time. The mind is every man's fair seed field; and, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to any man but through the toil and tillage bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to everyone... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe ience begins, belief of permanence must follow in...* for ever hidden ! To breathe, to sleep, is wond to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...suicide ; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion ; that though < the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to * him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...suicide ; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 524 pages
...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...on that plot of ground which is given him to till. EMEBSON. The base wretch who hoards up all he can Is praised and called a careful, thrifty man. DBYDEN.... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 pages
...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...on that plot of ground which is given him to till. EMERSON. The base wretch who hoards up all he can Is praised and called a careful, thrifty man. DBTDEN.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...suicide ; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is... | |
 | 1887 - 334 pages
...learn this lesson, " take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...on that plot of ground which is given him to till." Hence he must be led to understand that labor is a necessity from a physical as well as a moral aspect.... | |
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