...many a time ; For I'm facing God's bright sunlight, And the shadow lies behind. — Annie Marie Bliss. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; and though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through...

...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to 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 10 imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion ; that though...

...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction V SELF-RELIANCE r that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for...

...among them. One must come sooner or later to Emerson's conviction touching alien days and places, " that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;...better, for worse, as his portion; that though the universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed...

...among them. One must come sooner or later to Emerson's conviction touching alien days and places, " that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;...better, for worse, as his portion; that though the universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed...

...1830. 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...

...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be 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; that imi10 tation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though...

...vigorous, and intended to reach the attention through the ear. For instance, he says in this essay : — " There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion." Before we have finished Self-Reliance, he has made us feel that, with the exercise of self-trust, new...

...selections beginning: "What I must do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think," and "There is a time in every man's education when he...that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide." But the pupils were not allowed to stop with mere mechanical memorizing, but were asked to illustrate...

...the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Scott. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...is suicide; 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...