267 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 1 Sep \ on: Self-Reliance by Emerson BooksAndArticles
I spent a few weeks at 15 years old laboriously painting choice excerpts from this essay on my bedroom wall in 4 inch font.
My mom sold the house a few years later and the buyer liked it and wanted it left as-is.
There are a lot of good ones:
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.
Many teenagers had this book in the 1970s:
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