First Impression: On Self-Reliance

"Our acts our angels are, or good or ill..."

Don't look outside yourself,
be careful with your actions,
this goes with our very being.


Admonition: a lecture or a warning (told not to do something or something that is cautionary)

You think something, you believe that whatever you feel for everything is what everyone will agree with? No, that just describes arrogance. It's selfish. How could whatever I think, I believe that it's correct and everyone would agree? It's not the act of what I believe- it's the fact that I even believe in something. The idea that I am able to voice my beliefs is what is brilliant. That's worth celebrating.

Moses, Plato, and Milton thought for themselves.

Toil: means work

The only champion of your life is you. The only captain of your ship, of your future, is you.

What I got from the parts that we read were that whatever you do, is what you are. The things you do, what you believe, what you feel, what you say and what you think all combine in order to make what is you. You're a mixture of your own creations in a way.