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Select Essays and Poems - Page 58
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pages
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Reading and Elocution: Theoretical and Practical

Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pages
...noble, sublime, God-like action. Daniel Webster, Self-Reliance. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Bhakspeare ? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton...
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Progressive Exercises in English Composition

Richard Green Parker - 1873 - 252 pages
...through the upper calms, White as the fleeces of the unshorn lambs." "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person hag exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare ? Where is the master who could...
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The book of good devices, ed. by G. Golding

Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 pages
...believe boasters. Look to others, but trust to yourself. SELF-RELIANCE. NSIST on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-pos- E o session. That which each can do best, none •° but his Maker can teach him. No man...
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Getting on in the world; or, Hints on success in life

William Mathews - 1874 - 202 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...
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Getting On in the World; Or, Hints On Success in Life. by William Mathews ...

William Mathews - 1874 - 376 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...
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Getting on in the World

William Mathews - 1874 - 386 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...
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The Pacific Coast First [-fifth] Reader, Volume 5

1875 - 324 pages
...of Neptune. LESSON XIII. SELECT PASSAGES. SELF-RELIANCE.— Insist on yourself; never imitate. Tour own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative...extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do beet, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will he satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare ? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton...
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Reading and Elocution: Theoretical and Practical

Anna Randall Diehl - 1876 - 458 pages
...God-like action. Dai +d Webiter. Self-Eeliance. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Tour own gift . ju can present every moment with the cumulative force,...cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another yt u have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which <ach can do best, none but his Maker...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 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...
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