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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

John Ruskin

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Jonathan Swift

We are, in truth, more than a half of what we are by imitation.

Lord Chesterfield

All art is but imitation of nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Marcus Aurelius

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Oscar Wilde

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

Pericles

Immature poets imitate: mature poets steal.

Philip Massinger

Agesilaus, the Spartan king, was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale, but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

Plutarch

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson

No man ever yet became great by imitation.

Samuel Johnson

No man was ever great by imitation.

Samuel Johnson

A good imitation is the most perfect originality.

Voltaire

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

Voltaire

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Charles Caleb "Walter" Colton

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin

648. The Jokes on Saatan

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William J. Bausch

The Greek Orthodox have an old and wonderful tradition, the day after Easter is devoted to telling jokes. It's to imitate the cosmic "joke" that God pulled on Satan in the Resurrection. Satan thought he had won, and was smug in his victory, smiling to himself, having the last word. So he thought. Then God raised Jesus from the dead, and life and salvation became the last words. It's the cosmic plot twist to end all cosmic twist. Note: Beleifnet has a good article on this.

649. You're Never Too Old

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... to trust God with your life. Let me invite you to experience an exhilarating new adventure. Faith is not accepting a handful of propositions and saying “Oh yes, I believe. Now I am saved. Now I am bound for the promised land.” That is a pale imitation of the real thing. The real thing is when you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord and you seek to live courageously and victoriously for him in this world—staking everything you are and hope to be on his eternal purpose and promise—like ...

650. The Redemptive Side of Suffering

Hebrews 5:5-10

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Richard Gribble

... we too will find a greater ability to be obedient to the will of God — and to do our share to build Christ’s kingdom in our world. Through Jesus’ obedience to the will of his Father, the world was saved, but we, in imitation of Christ, have been commissioned through baptism to walk the Christian vocation in our time, and not looking back, but rather always continually moving forward, with the realization that suffering and pain will be part of the journey. This is certainly not an easy proposition ...

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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

J. C. F. von Schiller

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James A. Baldwin

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

John Ruskin

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Jonathan Swift

We are, in truth, more than a half of what we are by imitation.

Lord Chesterfield

All art is but imitation of nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Marcus Aurelius

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Niccolo Machiavelli

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Oscar Wilde

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

Pericles

Immature poets imitate: mature poets steal.

Philip Massinger

Agesilaus, the Spartan king, was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale, but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

Plutarch

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson

No man ever yet became great by imitation.

Samuel Johnson

No man was ever great by imitation.

Samuel Johnson

A good imitation is the most perfect originality.

Voltaire

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

Voltaire

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.