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  • I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only from the various essays of experimental industry, and the vague excursions of mind set upon discovery, that any advancement of knowledge can be expected; and though many must be disappointed in their labours, yet they are not to be charged with having spent their time in vain; their example contributed to inspire emulation, and their miscarriage taught others the way to success.

    Samuel Johnson (1889). “Select Essays”
  • A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.

    John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag
  • As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.... On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

    "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.
  • Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?

  • With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.

    Heart   Moon   Generosity  
    'Coriolanus' (1608) act 1, sc. 1, l. [218]
  • If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

    Wise   Men   Emulation  
    Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.532
  • A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

    William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Early novels and stories”
  • Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

    Envy   Brave   Mind  
    Alexander Pope (1804). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.71
  • Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.

    Grief   Self   Envy  
    Thomas Hobbes, John Charles Addison Gaskin (1999). “The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives”, p.54, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the protection it affords against foreign power, the virtue it inculcates, the just emulation of the distinction it confers on nations foremost in it; in short, its identification with power, morals, order and happiness (which merits to it premiums of encouragement rather than repressive taxes), are considerations [that should] always [be] present and [bear] with their just weight.

    Thomas Jefferson (1990). “Public and private papers”, Vintage Books
  • More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

    School   Mind   Radiation  
    James Boswell, Alexander Napier, Richard Duppa, Robina Napier, Samuel Johnson (1884). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Together with the journal of a tour to the Hebrides: James Boswell”
  • But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.

    Book   Men   Excellence  
    Samuel Johnson (2009). “The Lives of the Poets: A Selection”, p.396, OUP Oxford
  • As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep.

    Fall   Sleep   Men  
    William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.507
  • I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

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  • Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

    Men   Example   Doe  
  • With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

    The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 5 (1899)
  • My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.

    Heart   Envy   Teeth  
    William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1850). “Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc”, p.101
  • Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.

    Envy   Emulation   Sin  
  • I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice.

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  • The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

    War   Believe   Heart  
    John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin
  • Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

  • Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.

    Men   Perfection   Gold  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.113
  • Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

    Envy   Political   Soul  
    "Many thoughts of many minds". Book by H. Southgate, p. 673, 1862.
  • Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

  • Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights will become the biggest civil rights issue of all.

    Charles Stross (2010). “Accelerando”, p.49, Hachette UK
  • Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents-and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary.

    Children   Home   Numbers  
    Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.18, Hachette UK
  • Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.

  • Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

    Envy   Emulation   Virtue  
  • Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

    Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.140
  • The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

    Memorable   Land   Way  
    Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.23, University of Arkansas Press
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