Quote by Samuel Johnson
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a c

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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. – Samuel Johnson

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. – Samuel Johnson

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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible. – Ida Tarbell

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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice Im likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. – Andrew Motion

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Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. – Henry David Thoreau

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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? – Marquis de Sade

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