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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
The human race is governed by its imagination.
[Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]
The human race is governed by its imagination.
[Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling read more
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
