Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Im Wasser kannst du dein Antlitz sehn, / Im 35 Wein des andern Herz erspähn—In water thou canst see thine own face, in wine thou canst see into the heart of another. Pr.

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them. Swift.

Imagination is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is only the instrument which it sounds, or the tablet on which it writes. Ruskin.

Imagination is a mettled horse that will break the rider's neck when a donkey would have carried him to the end of his journey, slow but sure. Southey.

Imagination is but a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. Carlyle.

Imagination is central; fancy, superficial. Emerson.

Imagination is Eternity. Wm. Blake.

Imagination is the eye of the soul. Joubert.

Imagination is the mightiest despot. Auerbach. 5

Imagination is too often accompanied with a somewhat irregular logic. Disraeli.