 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
 | 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... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
..."into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed, through which the Creator passes." "That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him." "A man is entitled to be valued by his best moment." But we must grant the same privileges to every... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 464 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," end' ing with the sentence about " the Scipionism of Scipio." After several more jottings as to what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 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... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1904 - 312 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...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... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1905 - 112 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...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
...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...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;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1906 - 604 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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