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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 Essay on Self-reliance - Page 44
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pages
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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 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...extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do beet, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has...
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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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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...entry is continued by the passage now appearing in the latter part of " Self- Reliance " beginning, "That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him," ending with the sentence about " the Scipionism of Scipio." After several more jottings as to what...
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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...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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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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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...
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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 - 582 pages
...cumulative force of n whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of ¡mother, you have only nn extemporaneous half possession. That which each can...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person ImB exhibited it. Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or liacon,...
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