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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suicide, Courage, Ignorance

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Ignorance, Skills
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.55

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Suicide, Ignorance
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.162, Harvard University Press

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Ignorance, Knowledge
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.235

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Ignorance, Bystanders
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.206, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ignorance, Knowledge, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “The American Scholar”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suicide, Ignorance, Men

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never sought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance suppose The selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Ignorance, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Rhodora”

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