 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
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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... | |
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 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." l While due allowance, therefore, should be made for Emerson's reluctance to advertise... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 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 20 which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he... | |
 | 1915 - 376 pages
...suicide; that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion; that tho the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but thru his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. — Emerson. Past New... | |
 | Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 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... | |
 | Antoinette Knowles - 1916 - 376 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 bestowed upon that plot of ground that is given him to till. The power that resides in him is new in nature,... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 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 come to him but through his toil bestowed on that 1 This essay was one of the First Series of Emerson's Essays, published in 1841 : the text as here... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 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... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 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... | |
 | David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 pages
...recognizing the limit of the world to be defined by the scope of individual labor, by knowing that "no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till" (CW 2:28). At root, the ethics and politics of self-reliance depend on staying at home... | |
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