“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.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 96

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
Source: One Day

“Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation.”
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.”
Letter to James Madison http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/letter-to-james-madison-12/ (2 March 1788)
1780s

“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness”

“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
Source: Buddha's Little Instruction Book

'"Dedication to King Charles".
De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis (1628)