 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
 | New Hampshire. State Department of Health - 1887 - 314 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.... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1887 - 276 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.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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... | |
 | 1891 - 740 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...that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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... | |
 | 1894 - 596 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 new graduate in medicine, who has just rented and furnished his first office,... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1895 - 730 pages
...that 'he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him...that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor... | |
 | Jonathan Rigdon - 1896 - 280 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. Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse ; Not... | |
 | 1896 - 374 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... | |
 | 1896 - 234 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... | |
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