 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...giant goes with me wherever I go." . ; " It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model." " That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him." " Every great man is an unique." " Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." His... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 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... | |
 | William Mathews - 1883 - 396 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...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 can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. d any idea to his categories. his house, or into foreign lands, he is at with the cumulative force of a whole life's home still,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 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... | |
 | 1896 - 864 pages
...KKITRNEl) VOLUXTEKK. order of inspiration which produces fine men and fine art. Emerson says: " Insist upon yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - 1889 - 210 pages
...— you must stand or fall. Emerson but paraphrases and applies this apostolic truth when he says : " That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. . . . Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much, or dare too much." And quaint old... | |
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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,... 
