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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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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. – Samuel Johnson

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Art
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Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson

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Gambling (Gaming)
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Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. – Robinson Jeffers

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Imagination

The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott

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Imagination

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. – Anatole France

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Imagination

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination. – Lawrence Durrell

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Imagination

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The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Miscellaneous

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. – H.A. Overstreet

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Music

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. – H. G. Wells

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teacher

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldnt leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done. – Lindsey Buckingham

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Morning