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
| Harry Levinson - 1968 - 328 pages
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| Leo R. Friedman - 1968 - 206 pages
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| Roger Brown - 1970 - 424 pages
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| Roger Brown - 1970 - 426 pages
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| 1971 - 536 pages
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| 1971 - 508 pages
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| 1910 - 240 pages
...This much truth at all events there is in the startling warning of Emerson, " Never imitate. * * * That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him." l Thus liberally construed, examples tell in at least three conspicuous directions. peltY" the (0 In... | |
| Charles T. Sprading - 1913 - 550 pages
...strength is born. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but...that person has exhibited it. Where is the master that could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington,... | |
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