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Originality is the art of concealing your sources
Originality is the art of concealing your sources
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.
All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think read more
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
