...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...

...countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession....each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. and not like an interloper or a valet. j No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till I have no churlish...

...an Idol. Be true to yourself, if you would have the world true to you. Your own gift you can exhibit every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the borrowed talent of another you have only a temporary half-possession. Do not be frightened because...

...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...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person VOL. II. 6 has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare ? Where is the master...

...— you must stand or fall. Emerson but paraphrases and applies this apostolic truth when he says : " That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. . . . Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much, or dare too much." And quaint old...

...quality, advised him who would be original, thus :— ' Insist on yourself — never imitate. Your gift you can present every moment, with the cumulative...another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. The way to L speak and write what shall not go out of fashion, is to speak and write sincerely. Take...

...Well-managed. 11. The fearful unbelief is unbelief in thyself. 12. Insist on thyself. Thine own gift thou canst present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation. 13. Self -reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power....

...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 Shakespeare?1 Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin,2 or Washington, or Bacon,3 or...

...words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Insist upon 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. Every man in his lifetime...

...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?...