Quote by Joseph Addison
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagin

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. – Joseph Addison

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parenting
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We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. – Joseph Addison

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Life
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Imagination
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I loved the world of imagination. – R. A. Salvatore

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Imagination

No film has captivated my imagination more than King Kong. Im making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. – Peter Jackson

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Imagination

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. – Kerry Thornley

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Imagination

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination. – Lily Tomlin

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Imagination

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The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. – Louis Gottschalk, Understanding History

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Every spring is the only spring — a perpetual astonishment. – Ellis Peters

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