Ralph Waldo Emerson quote about ignorance from Self-Reliance - 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;
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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; ”
 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1841). copy citation

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Author Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source Self-Reliance
Topic ignorance education imitation
Date 1841
Language English
Reference in "Essays: First Series"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson quote about ignorance from Self-Reliance - 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;
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote about ignorance from Self-Reliance - 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;