 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 44by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John MacCunn - 1900 - 246 pages
...This much truth at all events there is in the startling warning of Emerson, " Never imitate. * * * That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him." 1 Thus liberally construed, examples tell in at least three conspicuous directions. C1) In the nrst... | |
 | John MacCunn - 1900 - 248 pages
...This much truth at all events there is in the startling warning of Emerson, " Never imitate. * * * That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him."1 Thus liberally construed, examples tell in at least three conspicuous directions. pectslf the... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...which all these will find themselves fitted ; and taste and senti-470 ment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous 475 half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yrmt-c<-if; fever imitate. _ Your own gift you can present every moment with the...another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That_whicTj each can do besL _ none but jiis Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor... | |
 | 1901 - 886 pages
...never sits down in a state of pulp and allows herself to be moulded. "Never imitate," says Emerson, "your own gift you can present every moment with the...but of the adopted talent of another you have only a half possession." The American school-girl does not imitate. She gives herself as she is, with a... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - 1913 - 1180 pages
...to defeat the great national purpose which should underlie all colonization schemes. Emerson says : "That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him." This is eminently true of colonials. These builders of empire act best on individual initiative. In... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 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," end' ing with the sentence about " the Scipionism of Scipio." After several more jottings as to what... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
..."into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed, through which the Creator passes." "That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him." "A man is entitled to be valued by his best moment." But we must grant the same privileges to every... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 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... | |
 | 1903 - 650 pages
...the English-speaking peoples at the present time is Emersonian unawares. Insist on yourself ; neyer imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative effect of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous... | |
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