"Imitation is suicide" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Imitation is suicide"

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
A little praise goes a great ways.

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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. — Marcus Aurelius
Imitation is the sincerest form of show business. — Roseanne Barr
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. — Theodor Adorno
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. — Aesop
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. — Joyce Brothers
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there… — Judith Butler
Imitation is the sincerest form of television. — Fred Allen
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. — Jean Cocteau
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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