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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the sense

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. – Washington Irving

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The great British Library — one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. – Washington Irving

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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving

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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. – Joseph Joubert

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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper! – George William Curtis

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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination. – Karl Philipp Moritz

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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. – Henry Ward Beecher

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