 | Literature - 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 - Electronic journals - 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 448 pages
...succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on forever. Complete. SELF-RELIANCE INSIST on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-reliance - 1902 - 66 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - English essays - 1903 - 508 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift...talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1903 - 464 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - Religion - 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... | |
 | Education - 1903 - 650 pages
...the English-speaking peoples at the present time is Emersonian unawares. Insist on yourself ; neyer imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative effect of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1904 - 362 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - Spellers - 1904 - 312 pages
...ry ex cheq'uer pe cun'ia ry iniq'uity le'ni ence hu mil'i ate mercenary 66 Thoughts from Emerson " Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what... | |
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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,... 
