"Imagination is not a talent of some..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
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“I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.”
“We go to Europe to be Americanized.”
“What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.”
More on Imagination
“Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.”
“Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.”
“It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others - the Dryad, but my real name is Memory. It is I who sits on a tree that keeps on growing, and growing, it is I who reminisces and tells stories.”
More on Health
“Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.”
“Of all exercises, walking is the best.”
“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.”