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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,... "
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 American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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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Public Speaking and Debate

George Jacob Holyoake - 1895 - 294 pages
...quality, advised him who would be original, thus :— ' Insist on yourself — never imitate. Your gift you can present every moment, with the cumulative...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. The way to L speak and write what shall not go out of fashion, is to speak and write...
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The New England Magazine, Volume 13; Volume 19

1895 - 814 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...
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The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures Gathered from Many Sources ...

1895 - 344 pages
...Well-managed. 11. The fearful unbelief is unbelief in thyself. 12. Insist on thyself. Thine own gift thou canst present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation. 13. Self -reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power....
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Literary Interpretations, Or, A Guide to the Teaching and Reading of ...

1896 - 234 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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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 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...
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The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress, Volume 13

William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 pages
...to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Insist upon yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present...each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. Valor consists in the power of self-recovery,...
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american prose

george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 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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American Prose: Selections

George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 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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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 pages
...sentiment will be satisfied also. 41. Explain the last sentence. 43. \In%ist on yourself ; never imitated 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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