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" 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 58
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pages
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pages
...themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. xv 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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Man and the Divine Order: Essays in the Philosophy of Religion and in ...

Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
..."into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed, through which the Creator passes." "That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him." "A man is entitled to be valued by his best moment." But we must grant the same privileges to every...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 464 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," end' ing with the sentence about " the Scipionism of Scipio." After several more jottings as to what...
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Essays, Volumes 1-2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 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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Fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth year grades

William Estabrook Chancellor - 1904 - 312 pages
...iniq'uity le'ni ence hu mil'i ate mercenary 66 Thoughts from Emerson " Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...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...
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Primary Education, Volume 12

1904 - 554 pages
...Insist on yourself; never imitate. Tour own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative cflect of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another yon have only an extemporaneous half-possession. . . Oiir spontaneous action is always the Ixist. ....
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The Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. 43 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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Graded City Speller: Second-[eighth] Year Grades

William Estabrook Chancellor - 1905 - 112 pages
...le'ni ence hu mil'i ate mer'ce na ry 66 Thoughts from Emerson " Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...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...
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An Emerson Calendar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...a transcript of the common conscience. POLITICS DECEMBER TWELFTH Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. SELF-RELIANCE DECEMBER THIRTEENTH The soul that ascendeth to worship the great God is plain and true;...
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Thoughts that Inspire, Volume 1

1905 - 330 pages
...crooked, intricate, inconstant and various things. — BURKE. Insist upon yourself; never imitate. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. — EMERSON. Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. — JOHN STERLING. Instruction...
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