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,... Select Essays and Poems - Page 58by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1899 - 136 pages
...attend your own work and already ihe evil begins to be repaired. Insist on 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. Do that which is assigned... | |
| 1899 - 828 pages
...familiar terms, it " helps him to help himself." Says Emerson : " Insist on yourself. I^ever imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...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... | |
| John MacCunn - 1900 - 246 pages
...This much truth at all events there is in the startling warning of Emerson, " Never imitate. * * * That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him." 1 Thus liberally construed, examples tell in at least three conspicuous directions. C1) In the nrst... | |
| John MacCunn - 1900 - 248 pages
...This much truth at all events there is in the startling warning of Emerson, " Never imitate. * * * That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him."1 Thus liberally construed, examples tell in at least three conspicuous directions. pectslf the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yrmt-c<-if; fever imitate. _ Your own gift you can present every moment with the...another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That_whicTj each can do besL _ none but jiis Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor... | |
| Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...themselves fitted ; and taste and senti-470 ment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous 475 half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows... | |
| 1901 - 886 pages
...never sits down in a state of pulp and allows herself to be moulded. "Never imitate," says Emerson, "your own gift you can present every moment with the...but of the adopted talent of another you have only a half possession." The American school-girl does not imitate. She gives herself as she is, with a... | |
| American Geographical Society of New York - 1913 - 1180 pages
...to defeat the great national purpose which should underlie all colonization schemes. Emerson says : "That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him." This is eminently true of colonials. These builders of empire act best on individual initiative. In... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 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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