Being original Quote by Hosea Ballou Download Open image “Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.” — Hosea Ballou ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being original Creativity Inspirational Love Originals Pretension
“Pretension is a question of optics. The pessimist sees pretension as a sham. The optimist views it as innocent, tragicomic, an excess of effort.… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension. — Horatio Greenough Copy Share Image
Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom,… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Being good is more important than being original. Originality is a product, not an intention. — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Not bringing anything new to the table is fine, as long as you're good at what you're not being original with. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You wouldn't even know anything about being original even if it slapped you in the face and danced naked in front of you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
