Can someone help me summarize this?

Question

I would do it, but i always have a problem of wiritng everything down!

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.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

Can someone plzz help me summarize these 2 paragraphs.

Answer 1

OOOH! that one guy above me got you good! LMAO. dont u jus love it when people say that they wrote sumthin but they didnt and are tryna get other people to do it for them by saying they never do it right?? haha...LOL. good times...good times..

Answer 2

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

Answer 3

Well, let's start by identifying that work as, "Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

With that out of the way, I will point you in a direction that will help you with your assignment:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_qdr=all&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22Self+Reliance%22+Emerson+summary&spell=1