 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
 | Adele Millicent Smith - 1905 - 182 pages
...power the presence of which he did not suspect he is simply putting forth what was always in him 9. That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him 10. In addition to numerous occasional pieces Cervantes wrote during middle age thirty dramas 11. In... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...unique : it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. INSIST on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. T ET the soul be assured J__i , that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift10 you can present every moment with the cumulative force...Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, '5 nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare?... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - 1912 - 818 pages
...bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him. . . . Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, halfpossession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. . . . Where is the master... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...My giant goes with me wherever I go." " It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model." " That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him." " Every great man is an unique." " Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." His... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...My giant goes with me wherever I go." " It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model." " That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him." " Every great man is an unique." " Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." His... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
..." My giant goes with me wherever I go." " It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model." "That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him." " Every great man is an unique." " Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." His... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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?... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1908 - 312 pages
...per'emp to ry per en'ni al al'a bas'ter 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... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1908 - 314 pages
...gree her'it age fea'si ble in iq'ui ty 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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