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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. - Ansel Adams No man knows himself as an original. - Washington Allston The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy. - Honore de Balzac About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. - Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw) 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. - Thomas Carlyle Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself. - Richard Cecil I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts. - William Benton Clulow The originality of a subject is in its treatment. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Be the first to say what is self-evident, and you are immortal. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. - Ralph Waldo Emerson If they haven't heard it before it's original. - Gene Fowler If you would create something, you must be something. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves. - James Russell Lowell Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past. - James Russell Lowell Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. - John Stuart Mill Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. - Ezra Pound Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies. - George Augustus Henry Sala They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. - George Bernard Shaw Originality does not consist in saying what no one else has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. - James Stephens What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. - William Makepeace Thackeray Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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