 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. That which each can do best,...  Essays - Page 68by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...entry is continued by the passage now appearing in the latter part of " Self- Reliance " beginning, "That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him," ending with the sentence about " the Scipionism of Scipio." After several more jottings as to what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but...exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare ? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1904 - 312 pages
...from Emerson " Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but...but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it." " No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own... | |
 | 1904 - 554 pages
...Insist on yourself; never imitate. Tour own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative cflect of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another yon have only an extemporaneous half-possession. . . Oiir spontaneous action is always the Ixist. .... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1905 - 112 pages
...from Emerson " Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but...but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it." "No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...DECEMBER TWELFTH 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. SELF-RELIANCE DECEMBER THIRTEENTH The soul that ascendeth to worship the great God is plain and true;... | |
 | 1905 - 330 pages
...crooked, intricate, inconstant and various things. — BURKE. Insist upon yourself; never imitate. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. — EMERSON. Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. — JOHN STERLING. Instruction... | |
 | Adele Millicent Smith - 1905 - 182 pages
...power the presence of which he did not suspect he is simply putting forth what was always in him 9. That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him 10. In addition to numerous occasional pieces Cervantes wrote during middle age thirty dramas 11. In... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1906 - 556 pages
...BROWNING. 4. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but...exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...a medicine. INSIST on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but...another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. T ET the soul be assured J__i , that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it... | |
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