# PARAGRAPH 1
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.
【文学精译】
在每个人的成长求索历程中，总有这样一个时刻：他终于笃信，嫉妒纯属无知，盲目效仿无异于自戕；无论境遇顺逆，他都必须坦然接纳自己的命数。
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✦ 长难句剖析与修辞：【排比同位语从句】conviction 后面连续接了三个 that 引导的同位语从句："that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must..."，短促有力，如雷贯耳。
# PARAGRAPH 2
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.
【文学精译】
相信你自己吧：每一颗心灵都在顺应着那根钢铁般的琴弦而律动共鸣。坦然接受天意为你安顿的位置，接受同代人的社会，接受生命中诸般机缘的连结。
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# PARAGRAPH 3
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
【文学精译】
凡想成为顶天立地之人者，必先拒绝随波逐流。若想摘取不朽的荣誉棕榈枝，就决不能被虚幻的所谓“善名”所羁绊，而必须亲自探索那究竟是否合乎真正的善。
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✦ 长难句剖析与修辞：【古英语虚拟语气】"if it be goodness" 为虚拟语气中 be 动词原形用于条件/让步状语从句的古典文学用法（现代英语多写作 if it is goodness）。