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
| 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... | |
| 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 - 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...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person VOL. II. 6 has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare ? Where is the master... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...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 sincerely. Take... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Every man in his lifetime... | |
| 1899 - 136 pages
...thereby help the sufferer ; } if not, attend your own work and already ihe evil begins to be repaired. 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. Do that which is assigned... | |
| 1899 - 828 pages
...it in familiar terms, it " helps him to help himself." Says Emerson : " Insist on yourself. I^ever imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment...cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation. But if the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession." Or, as Carlyle puts... | |
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