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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."
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"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."

"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."

"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."

"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."

"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."

"Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?"

"We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."

"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."

"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""

"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
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