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To build castles in Spain.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that each somewhat idealize the other. Much is lost when life has lost its atmosphere, and is reduced to naked fact.

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

And castels buylt above in lofty skies, Which never yet had good foundation.

In her the imagination and fancy have such lively play, that the homeliest principles assume forms of beauty. In intellectual pursuits she is destined to excel by her fine sensibilities, her nice observations, and exquisite tastes, while man is appointed to investigate the laws of abstruse sciences, and perform in literature and art the bolder flights of genius.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.