...no law less than the eternal law." Against those who recommend custom and tradition, Emerson adds, "Your own gift you can present every moment with the...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession." Thus the highest truth for Emerson: "The way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly...

...group identification obscures the real person. "Insist on yourself. Never imitate," Emerson writes. "Your own gift you can present every moment with the...another you have only an extemporaneous half possession" (Essays, 278-79). Emerson tells his readers that "under all the screens" of religious and political...

..."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...

...medium. 'he soul created the arts wherever they have flourished. . . 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. -Ralph Waldo Emerson5...

...another attorney's style, you will look like a phony. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift can present every moment with the cumulative force...cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you only have an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach...

...the life of man to splendor and make his name dear to all history. 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?...

...in a srare of pulp and allows herself to be moulded. 'Never imirare,' says Emerson, 'your own gifr you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopred ralent of another you have only a half possession.' The Ametican school girl does not imirare....

...absolute truth; then will they justify me, and do the same thing. . . . 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?...

..."Self-Reliance" could have been written to describe Bill Stokoe: "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation . . . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." This was Bill Stokoe, a man who allowed us to...

...never imitate. Your own gift can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole lifetime's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession."43 Everything changes when Nature includes not only the outer world but the inner; if one...