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
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole is of no value until it expands into the flower. — Every religious sentiment, every act half-possession. That which each cnn do best none but his Maker can teach him. — Emerson. It is by... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 pages
...yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole half-possession. That which each can do best none but hie Maker снп teach him. — • Ешегяоп.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 588 pages
...reality there is no other; for, all other is nought without this. A man must teach himself because that which each can do best, none but his maker can...that person has exhibited it. Where is the master that could have taught Shakspeare ? Where is the master that could have instructed Franklin, or Washington,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 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 it is, nor... | |
| William Morton Payne - 1910 - 512 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?... | |
| Josephine Eunice Seaman - 1910 - 106 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?... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...yourself; never imitate. Your own gift 25 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 30 has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare0? Where is the master who... | |
| William Morton Payne - 1910 - 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,...Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor c.oi, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where... | |
| 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
...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,...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,... | |
| |