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| Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about | | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. | | Ursula K. LeGuin | |
| Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. | | Robert Southey | |
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| Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. | | Tom Stoppard | |
| The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity | | George Santayana | |
| The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. | | Albert Einstein | |
| The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power | | John Ruskin | |
| The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness. | | John Keats | |
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| The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. | | William Blake | |
| There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing | | Kahlil Gibran | |
| There is nothing like a dream to create the future. | | Victor Hugo | |
| There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present. | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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