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Imagines Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines…
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
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- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie… — John Green
- Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal. — George Bernard Shaw
- When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins. — Theodore Martin
- Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs — Friedrich Nietzsche
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with… — Samuel Johnson
- Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide… — Christine de Pizan
- The Christian... imagines the better future of the human species... in the image of heavenly joy... We, on the other hand, will… — Moses Hess