Imitation Quote by Joshua Reynolds

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former…

— Henry Fielding

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.

— Hadewijch

He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of…

— Samuel Johnson

He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that…

— Laozi

“A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

— Orison Swett Marden

He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“There were times when he confronted his own image as a man confronts an empty valley, and the vision propelled him forward again to…

— John le Carré

Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he…

— Samuel Johnson

Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and…

— Jane Porter

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of…

— Anonymous