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Show GRtAT MAN NEVER HESITATES Self-Reliance -One of the Most Important Impor-tant Possessions That Can Be Acquired. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Tour 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. posses-sion. That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor enq til! that person has exhibited it. Where Is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin or Washington or Newton or Bacon? Every great man is unique. The Scip-ionism Scip-ionism of Scipio Is precisely that part he could not borrow. If anyone will tell me whom the great man imitates In the original crisis when he performs a great act, I will tell him who else can teach him. Do that which Is assigned as-signed thee and thou canst not hope too much nor dare too much. Dwell up there In thu staple and noble regions re-gions of thy life, obey thy heart and thou shalt reproduce the Forewbrld again. Iialph Waldo Emerson. |