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" 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... "
Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship - Page 26
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 140 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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 ; that imitation....through his 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...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays - 1841 - 324 pages
...take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation...but through his 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...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 37

Liberalism (Religion) - 1844 - 454 pages
...on the old-fashioned virtue of content. " There is a time in every man's education, when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation...take himself for better for worse, as his portion. — The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 2; Volume 37

Theology - 1844 - 460 pages
...on the old-fashioned virtue of content. " There is a time in every man's education, when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation...take himself for better for worse, as his portion. — The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation...but through his 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...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...their perception that the Eternal was stirring There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation...but through his 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...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation...but through his 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...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation...but through his 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 hut he knows...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation...but through his 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...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education' when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation...but through his 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...
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