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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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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. – Joseph Addison

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Nature
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Joseph Addison
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. – Joseph Addison

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Sky & Clouds
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost – the lost valleys of the imagination. – Alexander Cockburn

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Imagination

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? – James Thomson

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Imagination

I guess Im a very keen observer, and Id like to think I have a good imagination. – Eric Bana

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Imagination

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. – William Robertson Smith

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