 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,...  Essays - Sivu 68tekijä(t) Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John MacCunn - 1900 - 226 sivua
...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 - 226 sivua
...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 - 1902 - 180 sivua
...satisfied also. Insist on yrmt-c<-if; fever imitate. _ Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but...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 - 376 sivua
...satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but...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
...to be moulded. "Never imitate," says Emerson, "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 a half possession." The American school-girl does not imitate. She gives herself as she is, with a... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902
...SELF-RELIANCE INSIST on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but...exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare ? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 415 sivua
...satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but...exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
...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... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 448 sivua
..."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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 613 sivua
...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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