Quote by Edith Wharton
There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to wh

There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. – Edith Wharton

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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. – Edith Wharton

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Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. – Edith Wharton

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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. – Edmund Wilson

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I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination. – Javier Bardem

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I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God Ill never lose my imagination and my passion. Thats really what it is. Im still passionate about what I do. – Teena Marie

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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