Halley gets blogrolled for pointing me to a wonderful Emerson essay:
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; 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.”
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