Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Water Quotes, Imagination Quotes

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

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rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

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There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.

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Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

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[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

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Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

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If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

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And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

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The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

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