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May  11,  2012

Quote for Today

"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 or 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 soil
bestowed on that plot of ground
which is given to him to till."



Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882]

I was tempted to add "woman" and "she" and "her"
to the above quote, but didn't. I've learned
I can attempt to make this change in what
I write and simply say that this  was the viewing point
of the time Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote.