Quote by Samuel Johnson
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and i

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

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Dont think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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People can die of mere imagination. – Geoffrey Chaucer

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. – Samuel Johnson

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Avatar is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but its put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone. – Joe Dante

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Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination. – Bob Kane

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. – Angela Carter

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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. – Henry Miller

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We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies. – David Suzuki

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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site. – Sydney Harris

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