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Select Essays and Poems - Page 58
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pages
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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...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...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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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession....each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. and not like an interloper or a valet. j No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till I have no churlish...
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Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

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...
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Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...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...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...
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Character-shaping and Character-showing

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...
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Public Speaking and Debate

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...
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The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures Gathered from Many Sources ...

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....
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 pages
...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...exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare?1 Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin,2 or Washington, or Bacon,3 or...
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The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress, Volume 13

William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 pages
...words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Insist upon yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...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...
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...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...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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