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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. 43. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift 25 you can present every moment with the cumulative force...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person 30 has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare0? Where is the master who... | |
| Grenville Kleiser - 1910 - 302 pages
...process and stamped it with our individuality. Let a man take to heart these inspiring words of Emerson : "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift...possession. That which each can do best, none but the Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves s fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do 10 best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has... | |
| Alfred Slater West - 1912 - 364 pages
...you." — ' Whether of them twain did the will of his father?" — 'Anything for a quiet life.' — 'That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.' — 'He is a wise man who knows what is wise." — ' That is but an empty purse that is full of another's... | |
| American Association of Orificial Surgeons - 1913 - 764 pages
...yourself. Never imitate. Your own gift you can present, but of the adopted talent of another you have only half possession. That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him." The Convention of the American Association of Orificial Surgeons was by all means the largest in its... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 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...present every moment with the cumulative force of 5 a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous... | |
| Grenville Kleiser - 1920 - 192 pages
...care of itself if you resolutely follow Emerson's advice: "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 speak and write what shall not go out of fashion, is to speak and write sincerely." When... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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...Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor" canTTafl that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare? Where... | |
| Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 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...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-posses,sion. That which each can do best, none but his Maker ,can teach him. No man yet knows... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...decline of religion, the withdrawal of the Soul. — THE OVEB-SOUL Insist on yourself; never imitate. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. SELF-RELIANCE + A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am... | |
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