 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
 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 pages
...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 can...on that plot of ground which is given him to till. — Emerson. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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... | |
 | 1899 - 136 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. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best... | |
 | 1901 - 814 pages
...suicide ; that he must take \imself, for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide unirerse is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but ;hrough his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. Select from the above... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...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 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 \vhat that is... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 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 come to him but through his toil on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which 35 resides in him is new in nature,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 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... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1905 - 872 pages
...; that he must take himself for better or for worse, as his portion; thal, 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. Eiuernmi. Our birth is but a sleep, and a forgetting; The soul, that rises with us, our life's star,... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 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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