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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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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will he 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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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 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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Reading and Elocution: Theoretical and Practical

Anna Randall Diehl - 1876 - 458 pages
...God-like action. Dai +d Webiter. Self-Eeliance. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Tour own gift . ju can present every moment with the cumulative force,...cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another yt u have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which <ach can do best, none but his Maker...
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How to get on

Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 pages
...believe boasters. Look to others, but trust to yourself. SELF-RELIANCE. 3 Cf OS 0 o j* in ui o O j^NSIST on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can...each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could...
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Not a Day Without a Line: Original and Selected Lines, in Prose and Poetry ...

Mrs. G. H. Taylor - 1877 - 144 pages
...lowered. The great question in this life is not what we shall get, but what we may become. Bushnell. That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him. Emerson. Woman is most familiar with the enclosed facts of life, and has the most tenderness and reverence for...
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Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to "Eight Cousins"

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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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, aud taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. | Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...but of the adopted talent of another, you have only au extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him....
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitnte. Your own gi ft for comprehending the whole and every part. This,...have, indeed, seen the same thing asserted twice in half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of ¡mother, you have only nn extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person ImB exhibited it. Where is the master who could...
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Education, Volume 2

1882 - 698 pages
...which he thinks conveys no information directly useful for life. "Insist on yourself," says Emerson. "Your own gift you can present every moment with the...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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