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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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The Rise of American Civilization, Volume 1

Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 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...you have only an extemporaneous half possession." In the realm of imaginative letters, the independence which Emerson thus declared could, of course,...
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Educational Review, Volume 26

Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1903 - 560 pages
...in the educational life of the English-speaking peoples at the present time is Emersonian unawares. Insist on yourself ; never 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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El proceso ideológico

1910 - 240 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." l Thus liberally construed, examples tell in at least three conspicuous directions. peltY" the (0 In...
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Executive

Harry Levinson, Cynthia Lang - 1981 - 388 pages
...subordinates, as Emerson did in his essay "Self Reliance": "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift can present every moment with the cumulative force...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession."22 Emerson's advice is not always followed, and in some organizations identification can...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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 can present every moment with the cumuJative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only...
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Life Streams: Journeys into Meditation and Music

Hal A. Lingerman - 1988 - 356 pages
...of courage and power. September 19 Being Authentic Focus Insist on [being] 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 too much or dare too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson...
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Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition

Richard B. Miller - 1991 - 306 pages
...no law less than the eternal law." Against those who recommend custom and tradition, Emerson adds, "Your own gift you can present every moment with the...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession." Thus the highest truth for Emerson: "The way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly...
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Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass

Martin Klammer - 2010 - 193 pages
...group identification obscures the real person. "Insist on yourself. Never imitate," Emerson writes. "Your own gift you can present every moment with the...another you have only an extemporaneous half possession" (Essays, 278-79). Emerson tells his readers that "under all the screens" of religious and political...
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Unity, Volume 18

1903 - 400 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...
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Drawing the Light from Within: Keys to Awaken Your Creative Power

Judith Cornell - 1997 - 270 pages
...sit down to use this powerful medium. 'he soul created the arts wherever they have flourished. . . 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. -Ralph Waldo Emerson5...
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