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

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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. – Joseph Addison

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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. – Joseph Addison

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I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be. – Whoopi Goldberg

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The man who has no imagination has no wings. – Muhammad Ali

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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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