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There is a time in every mans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better (or) worse as his portion. 2. Trust thyself. very heart vibrates to that iron string. !ccept the place that divine providence has found for you. The society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. "reat men have always done so and confided themselves to the genius of their age. #. ! foolish consistency is hobgoblin of little minds. $peak what you think in hard words today, and tomorrow speaks what tomorrow thinks in hard words again through it contradicts everything you said today. %. &n what prayers do men allow themselves. That which we call a holy office is not so brave or manly. 'rayer that craves a particular commodity(anything less that all good is vicious. 'rayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. &t is the solilo)uy of a beholding *ubilant soul. +ut prayer that effects a private end is meanness and theft. !s soon as a man is one w, "od, he will not beg. -e will then see prayers in all action. The prayer of a farmer tilling the soil, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers. .. There is one present in all particular men only partially or through one faculty. /an is not a farmer or a professor, or an engineer but he is all0man, priest and scholar and statesman, producer and soldier. &n the social state, these functions are parceled out to individual each of whom does his work. . +ut the individual, to reali1e his work, must return to his own labors to embrace all the other laborers. +ut, unfortunately this original unit, this fountain of power, has been sodistributed to multitudes, has been so minutely subdivided, peddled out, that is spilled into drops and cannot be gathered. 2. This man is metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter who is man set out into the fields to gather food is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. -e sees his work as as a mere farmer instead of man on the farm. The priest becomes a form, the attorney a statue book, the mechanic a machine, or the sailor a rope of the ship. /an is man before he is a farmer or an attorney or a sailor and he is a better priest, attorney or mechanic in that he is a better man.