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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

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.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.

I invent nothing. I rediscover.

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.