Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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A selected quote by Francis Bacon.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
The human species is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.