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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors - Page 138
by Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 432 pages
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...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...
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Progressive Exercises in English Composition

Richard Green Parker - 1871 - 254 pages
...upper calms, White as the fleeces of the unshorn lambs." " Insist on yourself; never imitate. Tour own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative...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...
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Reading and Elocution: Theoretical and Practical

Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pages
...than all eloquence : it is action, noble, sublime, God-like action. Daniel Webster, Self-Reliance. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift...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...
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Progressive Exercises in English Composition

Richard Green Parker - 1873 - 252 pages
...lithe ; And clouds sail softly through the upper calms, White as the fleeces of the unshorn lambs." "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift...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...
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The book of good devices, ed. by G. Golding

Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 pages
...JEREMY TAYLOR. Neither believe boasters. Look to others, but trust to yourself. SELF-RELIANCE. NSIST on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can...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...
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Getting on in the world; or, Hints on success in life

William Mathews - 1874 - 202 pages
...an Idol. Be true to yourself, if you would have the world true to you. Your own gift you can exhibit every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the borrowed talent of another you have only a temporary half-possession. Do not be frightened because...
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Getting on in the World

William Mathews - 1874 - 386 pages
...an Idol. Be true to yourself, if you would have the world true to you. Your own gift you can exhibit every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the borrowed talent of another you have only a temporary half-possession. Do not be frightened because...
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Getting On in the World; Or, Hints On Success in Life. by William Mathews ...

William Mathews - 1874 - 376 pages
...an Idol. Be true to yourself, if you would have the world true to you. Your own gift you can exhibit every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the borrowed talent of another you have only a temporary half-possession. Do not be frightened because...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift...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...
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The Pacific Coast First [-fifth] Reader, Volume 5

1875 - 324 pages
...of Neptune. LESSON XIII. SELECT PASSAGES. SELF-RELIANCE.— Insist on yourself; never imitate. Tour own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do beet, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what...
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