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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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A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden. – Samuel Johnson

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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. – Samuel Johnson

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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson

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Imagination
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The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. – Robert Bierstedt

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Imagination

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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Imagination

Imagination creates reality. – Richard Wagner

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Imagination

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? – Sun Tzu

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Im an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance. – Patrick Duffy

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If you cannot be grateful for what you have received, then be thankful for what you have been spared. – Yiddish Proverb

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My daughters mother and I are no longer dating, and the people Im most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes. – Tyson Gay

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Well, Im a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom. – John Bolton

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