 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, none...  Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 67by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker - 1871 - 254 pages
...yourself; never imitate. Tour own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of...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?... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pages
...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...exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Bhakspeare ? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1873 - 252 pages
...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...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person hag exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare ? Where is the master who could... | |
 | Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 pages
...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-pos- E o session. That which each can do best, none •° but his Maker can teach him. No man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1875 - 324 pages
...yourself; never imitate. Tour own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of...extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do beet, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1876 - 458 pages
...extemporaneous, half possession. That which <ach can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No mau yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has...Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare ? ^rhere is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Wauhington, or Bacon, or Newton ? Every... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 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... | |
 | Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 pages
...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, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1877 - 408 pages
...marked: — " ' My life is for itself, and not for a spectacle/ " 'Insist on yourself : never imitate. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him/ " ' Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope or dare too much/ Then coming to the folded... | |
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