"Imagination is a very high sort of..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
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“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.”
“It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.”
“What care though rival cities soarAlong the stormy coast,Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,If Boston knew the most!”
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“Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.”
“Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.”
“Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.”
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“If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.”
“What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!”
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”