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That minister of ministers,
Imagination, gathers up
The undiscovered Universe,
Like jewels in a jasper cup.

— John Davidson

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One must become
Fanatic – be a wedge – a thunder-bolt
To smite a passage through the close-grained world.

Mere by-blows are the world and we,
And time within eternity
A sheer anachronism.

Unwilling friend, let not your spite abate;
Help me with scorn, and strengthen me with hate.

Ballads and Songs (1894)

Business – the world's work – is the sale of lies:
Not goods, but trade-marks; and still more and more
In every branch becomes the sale of money.

From fear in every guise,
From sloth, from love of pelf,
By war's great sacrifice
The world redeems itself.

War Song. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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