Imitation Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “No man was ever great by imitation.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imitation
Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in imitation.we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Obviously I don't play the same way as Peter, but I could do a passable imitation of Peter Green; if you gave me a… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers. — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
