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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. – Samuel Johnson

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Change
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. – Samuel Johnson

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Broken Hearts
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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Other Quotes from
Imagination
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The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in ones own imagination. – Dennis Potter

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Imagination

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now its real. – Gustavo Dudamel

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Imagination

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. – Percy Ross

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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. – H. G. Wells

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