"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings."
-Lord Chesterfield
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"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.“
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"In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool."
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"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded."
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"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."
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"Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
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"Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison."
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality."
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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