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.

堅持自己，決不要模仿。

你自己的天賦可以隨時以自己畢生積累的素質修養來展示；

但模仿他人的才華，

你只能暫時地、部分地占用。