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... Essays: First Series - Page 44by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. 2. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays - 1841 - 324 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...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... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1844 - 452 pages
...this same chapter of self-reliance, an excellent lecture on the old-fashioned virtue of content. " There is a time in every man's education, when he...that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better for worse, as his portion. — The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none... | |
| Unitarianism - 1844 - 450 pages
...this same chapter of self-reliance, an excellent lecture on the old-fashioned virtue of content. " There is a time in every man's education, when he...that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better for worse, as his portion. — The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...most when • the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. Trust thyself: every heart vilmrtes to that iron string. Accept the place the Divine Providencafhas... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...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... | |
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