"Imitation cannot go above its model...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”

“A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.”

“Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.”

“Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”

“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”

“It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.”

“It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.”

“We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.”

“Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.”