Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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 of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on the plot of ground which is given him to till."

This man is a genious... read the full text:

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Wow I'd never heard of Emerson before. I carefully read through the link you posted and I can't help but agree with you. This man surely was a genius. I'm going to keep rereading it because I feel this is something that needs to really sink in, sort of make it my own. I'll try to find more of his work online, after checking out wikipedia and others, it seems he's written several other interesting essays along with some famous speeches even!

Thank you very much for posting this ! Definitely S&F.