“At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.”
Source: This Earth of Mankind
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“Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 96
“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
David Nicholls book One Day
Source: One Day
“Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation.”
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) English portrait and landscape painter
Quote of Gainsborough in a Letter to John Henderson, 27th June 1773
1770 - 1788
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
Letter to James Madison http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/letter-to-james-madison-12/ (2 March 1788) <br class="br">1780s
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness”
Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer
Source: Buddha's Little Instruction Book
William Harvey (1578–1657) English physician
'"Dedication to King Charles".
De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis (1628)