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Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of Logic - Page 62
by George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 129 pages
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Getting On in the World; Or, Hints On Success in Life. by William Mathews ...

William Mathews - 1874 - 376 pages
...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...
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Getting on in the World

William Mathews - 1874 - 386 pages
...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...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...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 it is, nor can,...
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The Pacific Coast First [-fifth] Reader, Volume 5

1875 - 324 pages
...of Neptune. LESSON XIII. SELECT PASSAGES. SELF-RELIANCE.— Insist on yourself; never imitate. Tour own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do beet, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will he satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...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 it is, nor can,...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. * Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...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 it is, nor can,...
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Reading and Elocution: Theoretical and Practical

Anna Randall Diehl - 1876 - 458 pages
...God-like action. Dai +d Webiter. Self-Eeliance. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Tour own gift . ju can present every moment with the cumulative force,...cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another yt u have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which <ach can do best, none but his Maker...
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How to get on

Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 pages
...Look to others, 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...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...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...will find themselves fitted, aud taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. | Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...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....
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...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,...the same thing asserted twice in modern books, an That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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