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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... "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pages
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The Meaning of a Liberal Education

Everett Dean Martin - Education - 1926 - 344 pages
...your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standards. But there is a Jk time in each man's education when he arrives at the conviction...imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better or for worse. All men preen themselves on the improvement of society and no man improves. Society never...
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The History of New England ...: New England in the Republic, 1776-1850

James Truslow Adams - New England - 1926 - 484 pages
...self-development and self-reliance as we find in the essay by that title rang like trumpet calls to a new life. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide" ; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "My life...
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New England in the Republic, 1776-1850

James Truslow Adams - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 482 pages
...self-development and self-reliance as we find in the essay by that title rang like trumpet calls to a new life. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide" ; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "My life...
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A Book of American Literature

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...wide unispired by the Divine Soul which also verse is full of good, no kernel of inspires all men. nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot SELF-RELIANCE of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new "Ne te...
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Pooling Wheat in Canada, Volume 25

Walter P. Davisson - Wheat trade Canada - 1927 - 350 pages
...following essays on "The Pool Way." THE SEED-BED! "There is a time in every man's education when h*i arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide . . . that no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his own toil, bestowed on that plot of ground...
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Pooling Wheat in Canada, Volume 25

Walter P. Davisson - Wheat trade Canada - 1927 - 350 pages
...education when hj arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide . . . that no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his own toil, bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till." — EMERSON. SOMEONE has written:...
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Proceedings, Volume 15

National Fraternal Congress of America - Assessment insurance - 1928 - 388 pages
...that it is in the proceedings. WHAT ARE THE INSURANCE BENEFITS BEST SUITED TO FRATERNAL SOCIETIES? "There is a time in every man's education when he...imitation is 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...
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Emerson: A Study of the Poet as Seer

Robert Malcolm Gay - Authors, American - 1928 - 276 pages
...man." "When a man has got to a certain point in his career of truth he becomes conscious forevermore that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that what he can get out of his plot of ground by the sweat of his brow is his meat, and though the wide...
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The Administration of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act: Hearings Before a ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Manpower and Housing Subcommittee - Blind - 1983 - 824 pages
...Ralph Waltlo Emerson set up a number of guideposls that I have found useful. For instance, he said. "There is a time in every man's education when he...imitation is 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...
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The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Collections - 1989 - 450 pages
...teach you. 7. Luke 9:53. 8. Mark 8:36-37. 9. George Herbert, "The Elixir," lines 1-4, 13-16. 10. Cf. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction . . . that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion" ("Self-Reliance," CW 2:27-28). See also...
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