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The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.
The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.
 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.] 
Imagination rules the world.
Imagination rules the world.
Imagination is the air of mind.
Imagination is the air of mind.
 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.] 
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Everything you can imagine is real.
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'