...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 plot of ground which is given to him to till" (CW 2:27-28). Emerson's affirmation of agrarian values indicates how close he is in some respects to...

...as his portion; and know 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 plot of ground which it was given him to till." The matchless eloquence with which Emerson proclaimed the sovereignty of...

...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...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. . . . Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence...

...world to be defined by the scope of individual labor, by knowing that "no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his 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 within the limits...

...and in our plot of ground: "Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till" (176). In March 1845, Henry David Thoreau set out on what was to become a parable of American ideals....

...within each man or woman lies a "genius," a unique capacity. As he later stated in "Self-Reliance": "The power which resides in him is new in nature,...is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.""1 True scholarship sets this genius free: discovering, developing, and relying on it. Emerson's...

.... . . [Tjhough the wide universe is full of good, no kernal of nourishing corn can come to [a man] but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.26 Lest I be misunderstood, I need add that even in the essays Eliot wrote before The Waste Land...

...ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion . . . The power which resides in him is new in nature, and...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. . . . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. ... No law can be sacred to me but that of my own...

...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...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. A GOOD SUGGESTION When I come across short statements of Truth in my reading...

...universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him [her] but through his [her] toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him [her] to till. The power which resides in him [her] is new in nature, and none but he [she] knows what...