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,... Common School Education and Teachers World - Page 3081893Full view - About this book
| 1849 - 448 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... | |
| George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 154 pages
...men, has written the philosophy of Originality : — " Insist on yourself," says he, " never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment, with the...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion, is to speak and write sincerely. Take... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...with every change of visionary luxury. — Johnson. IMITATION. — 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. — Emerson. IMMORTALITY.... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 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...but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it Where is the roaster who could have taught Shakspeare... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...cultivation ; but of the 1 adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. IThat which each can' do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person v has exhibited it. Where is the master who could •have taught Shakspeare... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 pages
...sentiment will be satisfied also. SELF-RELIANCE. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift yon can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; bnt of the adopted talent of another, TOO have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 482 pages
...Florence, Anno Domini 1265. SELF-RELIANCE. Ii. WALDO KHKB8OX. 1. Insist on 3rourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...extemporaneous, half- possession. That which each can do test, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. SELF-RELIANCE. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another jou have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can... | |
| 1859 - 188 pages
...conduct, by embodying the text, do credit to the sermon. SELF-RELIANCE. INSIST on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent ot another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his... | |
| John Relly Beard - 1860 - 202 pages
...11. No one but yourself knows what that which is in. you can do, nor do you know till you have tried. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. The force of his own merit makes his way — A gift that heaven gives. Make one basket, make a hundred.... | |
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