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All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.
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All the makers of dictionaries, all compilers who do nothing else than repeat backwards and forwards the opinions, the errors, the impostures, and the truths already printed, we may term plagiarists; but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention.
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All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer’s originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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And for the citation of so many authors, ’tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own… there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.
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As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.
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Away, ye imitators, servile herd!
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Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other.
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Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
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Call them if you please bookmakers, not authors; range them rather among second-hand dealers than plagiarists.
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole ’em. [Lat., Libertas et natale solum.]
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For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary.
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Genius Borrows nobly.
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Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.
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He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others’ books; And ruin half an author’s graces By plucking bon-mots from their places.
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He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole.
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Honest thinkers are always stealing from each other.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns
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I wrote these lines; another wears the bays: Thus you for others build your nests, O birds: Thus you for others bear your fleece, O sheep: Thus you for others honey make, O bees: Thus you for others drag the plough, O kine. [Lat., Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves: Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves: Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes: Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves.]
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