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,... Select Essays and Poems - Página 58por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 páginas
...but trust to yourself. SELF-RELIANCE. 3 Cf OS 0 o j* in ui o O j^NSIST 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. No man yet knows what... | |
| Mrs. G. H. Taylor - 1877 - 144 páginas
...lowered. The great question in this life is not what we shall get, but what we may become. Bushnell. That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him. Emerson. Woman is most familiar with the enclosed facts of life, and has the most tenderness and reverence... | |
| Louisa May Alcott - 1877 - 408 páginas
...marked: — " ' My life is for itself, and not for a spectacle/ " 'Insist on yourself : never imitate. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him/ " ' Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope or dare too much/ Then coming to the folded... | |
| Anna Randall Diehl - 1878 - 460 páginas
...of the adopted talent of another yi u have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which i ach can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No...exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare ? ^Viiere is the master who could hare instructed Franklin, or WaL.mngton, or Bacon, or... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 páginas
...fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitnte. Your own gi ft for comprehending the whole and every part. This,...am convinced is true, viz., that the dread book of instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 páginas
...cumulative force of n whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of ¡mother, you have only nn extemporaneous half possession. That which each can...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person ImB exhibited it. Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or liacon,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 páginas
...themselves fitted, aud taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. | Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...but of the adopted talent of another, you have only au extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.... | |
| 1882 - 698 páginas
...which he thinks conveys no information directly useful for life. "Insist on yourself," says Emerson. "Your own gift you can present every moment with the...has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton ? Every man is a unique." . With the present... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 páginas
...giant goes with me wherever I go." . ; " It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model." " That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him." " Every great man is an unique." " Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." His... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 páginas
...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... | |
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