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Henry Giles

It is by faith that poetry, as well as devotion, soars above this dull earth; that imagination breaks through its clouds, breathes a purer air, and lives in a softer light.

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Ralph Gerard, fully Ralph Waldo Gerard

How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Imagination | Nothing | Taste | Wisdom |

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Thomas Haliburton, fully Thomas Chandler Haliburton, pseudonym "Sam Slick"

An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by over-indulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.

Imagination | Indulgence | Wisdom |

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Johann Gottfried von Herder

There is nothing in man that must be held in check as the imagination - the most mobile and most dangerous of all our capacities.

Imagination | Man | Nothing | Wisdom |

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Nothing is more free than the imagination of man; and though it cannot exceed that original stock of ideas furnished by the internal and external senses, it has unlimited power of mixing, compounding, separating, and dividing these ideas, in all the varieties of fiction and vision. It can feign a train of events, with all the appearance of reality, ascribe to them a particular time and place, conceive them as existent, and paint them out of itself with every circumstance, that belongs to any historical fact, which it believes with the greatest certainty.

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Abraham Lincoln

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery is a good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

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Walter Savage Landor

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

Heart | Imagination | Wisdom | Wishes |

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Abraham Lincoln

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Nothing | Slavery | Wisdom | Wrong |

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John Locke

The perfect condition of slavery... is nothing else but the state of war continued between a lawful conqueror and a captive, for if once compact enter between them, and make an agreement for a limited power on the one side, and obedience on the other, the state of war and slavery ceases as long as the compact endures; for, as has been said, no man can by agreement pass over to another that which hath not in himself - a power over his own life.

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Hamilton Wright Mabie

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

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Compton Mackenzie, fully Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie

Take two workers in an organization. One limits his giving by wages he is paid. He insists on being paid instantly for what he does. That shows he is a man of limited imagination and intelligence. The other is a natural giver. His philosophy of life compels him to make himself useful. He knows that if he takes care of other people's problems they will be forced to take care of him to protect their own interests. The more a man gives of himself to his work, the more he will get out of it, both in wages and satisfaction.