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 - 1907 - 552 pages
..." My 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... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...My 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 Estabrook Chancellor - 1908 - 322 pages
...for'mu late as sem'blage per'emp to ry per en'ni al al'a bas'ter CITY SPELLER 66 Thoughts from Emerson " Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift...but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it." " No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own... | |
| William Estabrook Chancellor - 1908 - 314 pages
...ry per en'ni al al'a bas'ter ped'i gree her'it age fea'si ble in iq'ui ty 66 Thoughts from Emerson " Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift...but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it." "No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own... | |
| William Estabrook Chancellor - 1908 - 312 pages
...cal'ci mine for'mu late as sem'blage per'emp to ry per en'ni al al'a bas'ter 66 Thoughts from Emerson " Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift...but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it." "No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own... | |
| Mary Allette Ayer - 1908 - 212 pages
...through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger. — Henry W. Longfellow. TNSIST on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can...each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare ? Where is the master who could have instructed... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 774 pages
...is foremost leads the herd. — Schiller. We imitate only what we Iwlieve and admire.— Willmoti. s. half-possession. That which each can do best none but hie Maker снп teach him. — • Ешегяоп.... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...is foremost leads the herd.— Schiller. We imitate only what we believe and admire. — Willmott. no value in the Christian system save as it is connected...the flower. — Every religious sentiment, every act half-possession. That which each cnn do best none but his Maker can teach him. — Emerson. It is by... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 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...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... | |
| William Morton Payne - 1910 - 470 pages
...the style and the thought of the man who thus made his formal entrance into our classical literature. "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift...Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor c.oi, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where... | |
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