 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
 | 1899 - 136 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. Do that which is assigned... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can preI sent every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another,...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... | |
 | John MacCunn - 1900 - 246 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." 1 Thus liberally construed, examples tell in at least three conspicuous directions. C1) In the nrst... | |
 | John MacCunn - 1900 - 248 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."1 Thus liberally construed, examples tell in at least three conspicuous directions. pectslf the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...yrmt-c<-if; fever 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_whicTj each can do besL _ none but jiis Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 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 475 half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - 1913 - 1180 pages
...to defeat the great national purpose which should underlie all colonization schemes. Emerson says : "That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him." This is eminently true of colonials. These builders of empire act best on individual initiative. In... | |
 | 1901 - 886 pages
...imitate," says Emerson, "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 a half possession." The American school-girl does not imitate. She gives herself as she is, with a... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 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,...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... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 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,...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... | |
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