"There comes a time in each man's education
When he's convinced that envy's ignorance
And imitation's naught but suicide;
That he must take himself for better or for worse
As his own lot; for though the universe
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Is full of good, there's none of it for him
But through his toil bestowed upon himself.
The pow'r that lies in him is new in nature,
And none but he knows what that is which he
Can do, nor does he know till he has tried."