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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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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. – Samuel Johnson

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When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. – Samuel Johnson

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Man lives by imagination. – Havelock Ellis

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When you believe in what youre doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference. – Samuel Dash

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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery –even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness –is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be. – Andre Breton

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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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