Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with th…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). Self-Reliance and Other Essays, p.35, Courier Corporation
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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). Self-Reliance and Other Essays, p.35, Courier Corporation

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