...attend your own work and already ihe evil begins to be repaired. 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. Do that which is assigned...

...familiar terms, it " helps him to help himself." Says Emerson : " Insist on yourself. I^ever imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...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 what it is, nor...

...themselves fitted ; and taste and senti-470 ment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...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...

...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...

...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...

...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?...