 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 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 15 in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that... | |
 | David Washburn Wells - 1907 - 172 pages
...Emerson has said : "He must take himself for better for worse as his portion, 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."1 The economic value of intellectual habits becomes apparent when it is understood... | |
 | Katherine Jewell Everts - 1908 - 240 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... | |
 | 1909 - 814 pages
...suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...on that plot of ground which is given him to till." Italy is no playground for the worn women who climb the cliff paths with baskets of compost. It was... | |
 | 1909 - 838 pages
...suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...on that plot of ground which is given him to till." Italy is no playground for the worn women who climb the cliff paths with baskets of compost. It was... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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... | |
 | Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 340 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...but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground (himself) which is given to him to till. " 2 And this conviction must not be accompanied with self-reproach.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 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 15 new in nature, and none but he knows what that... | |
 | Henry Evarts Gordon - 1911 - 332 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 - 1911 - 148 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 10 which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that... | |
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