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Quotes about Imitation

They are like those sacred cows in India which, I am told, eat up all the printed paper they can find in the streets... Yes, they gobble up all the printed pages from books that have been written centuries ago, but they do not digest them. They no longer think for themselves; they read and repeat, read and repeat - and the students who listen to them learn only to read and repeat, generation after generation. ...on the whole, Al-Azhar has lapsed into the sterility from which the whole Muslim world is suffering... If there is to be any change for the better, thinking must be encouraged instead of the present thought-imitation...

~ Shaykh Mustafa al-Maraghi, Quoted by Muhammad Asad in The Road To Mecca

Muhammad Asad
Source: The Road to Mecca
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Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding.

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
Source: The Prince, ch. 6, 1514
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Expressions of replica...


Consideration of periphery as existent...


Contemplation of imitation as authentic...


Fear of exposure...


Merely a likeness of you...

for your reflection remains hidden


Trust the manifestation .....

it is your inner self ...

evident at it's core

Kandra J Gardner
 
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The only kind of person I would like to be is the kind of person who likes to be me.

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Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: King Henry V, Act III, Scene 1
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: King Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. . . .

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: King Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1 [short excerpt]
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What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universall Mother of us all, so by them bespotted, so dyed, that all the world cannot sample them, and wherein it is more fit to admire the Dyer, than imitate his workemanship. Colouring not onely the earth, but decking the ayre, and sweetning every breath and spirit.

William Lawson
Source: A New Orchard and Garden, 1618
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Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933;. Swift's Epitaph
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I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: The Trembling of the Veil
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbor's, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

François Marie Arouet Voltaire : French poet, historian & satirist
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
 
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Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the Spirit's final harvest, may inherit Paradise. If we Christian's truly treasure the hope that one day we, like Adam and the penitent thief, will walk alongside the One who caused even the dead wood of the Cross to blossom with flowers, then we must also imitate the Master's art and make the desolate earth grow green.

Vigen Guroian
Source: Inheriting Paradise
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Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

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It distresses parents when children who should obey them, instead imitate them.

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Source: Albert W. Daw Collection
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When we live habitually with the wicked, we become either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, with the virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of virtues, or at least some of their faults.

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What are imitation rhinestones?

Steven Wright : Canadian comedian
Steven Wright (1955 - )
 
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He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
Source: To Royal Academy Students, 10 Dec. 1774
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

Dr. Samuel Johnson : English poet, critic, lexicographer, creator of first English dictionary
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
 
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
 
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The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth for me and those who will believe and imitate me. And therefore I would that ye name not to me any rule, neither of St. Augustine, nor St. Benedict, nor of Bernard, nor any way or form of living, but that which was mercifully shown and given me by the Lord.

Saint Francis of Assisi : Italian founder of Franciscan order in 1208
Saint Francis of Assisi (c. 1181 - 1226)
Source: The Mirror of Perfection
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Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.

Richard Franck
Source: Northern Memoirs (written in 1658, printed in 1694).
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
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Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
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Imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde : Irish writer, & playwright
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
 
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A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
Source: The prince, 1532
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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra : Spanish writer & dramatist, author of Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Source: "El Licenciado Vidriera."
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus : Roman Emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)
 
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No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus : Roman Emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)
 
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