 | Quotations - 1899 - 136 pages
...thereby help the sufferer ; } if not, attend your own work and already ihe evil begins to be repaired. Insist on yourself : never imitate. Your own gift...each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope or dare too much. Abide in the simple and noble... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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... | |
 | Veterinary medicine - 1899 - 828 pages
...it in familiar terms, it " helps him to help himself." Says Emerson : " Insist on yourself. I^ever imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment...cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation. But if the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession." Or, as Carlyle puts... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English essays - 1900 - 454 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 462 pages
...forever. SELF-RELIANCE Complete. TNSIST on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can preI sent every moment with the cumulative force of a whole...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... | |
 | John MacCunn - Character - 1900 - 246 pages
...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 - Character - 1900 - 248 pages
...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... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - English literature - 1901 - 398 pages
...which all these will find themselves fitted ; and taste and senti-470 ment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 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 - 1902 - 206 pages
...themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yrmt-c<-if; fever imitate. _ Your own gift you can present every moment with the...talent of 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... | |
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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,... 
