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" Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. "
Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of Logic - Page 54
by George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 129 pages
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Literary Interpretations, Or, A Guide to the Teaching and Reading of ...

1896 - 234 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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american prose

george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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American Prose: Selections

George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress, Volume 13

William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 pages
...thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Insist upon yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Every man in his lifetime...
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 pages
...sentiment will be satisfied also. 41. Explain the last sentence. 43. \In%ist on yourself ; never imitated Your own gift you can present every moment with the...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...another, you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert ...

1899 - 136 pages
...sufferer ; } if not, attend your own work and already ihe evil begins to be repaired. Insist on yourself : never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Do that which is assigned...
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Journal of Comparative Medicine and Surgery, Volume 20

1899 - 828 pages
...it in familiar terms, it " helps him to help himself." Says Emerson : " Insist on yourself. I^ever imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment...cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation. But if the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession." Or, as Carlyle puts...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 4

David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 454 pages
...supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on forever. Complete. SELF-RELIANCE INSIST on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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