...you reform it? Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but...can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, until that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is...

..."Self-Reliance": Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but...each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. . . . Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. 27 Yet within the...

...Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultrvation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. . . . Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. — Ralph Waldo...

...Emerson, "Self Reliance," in Essays and Lectures (New York: Library of America, 1983), pp. 278-79: "[O]f the adopted talent of another, you have only...each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him." 205 Plato, Republic, Book VI, 488a-e. The philosopher (captain), in "being somewhat short-sighted [horonta...

...1788-1860 ~ Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but...talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous half-expression. That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,...