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“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Self-Reliance, 1841 · Primary source

“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Harvard Divinity School Address, 1838 · Primary source

“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Self-Reliance, 1841 · Primary source

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Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841
Self-Reliance

An argument for trusting individual judgement, resisting conformity, and living according to one’s own convictions rather than external approval.

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