Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
Few men have imagination enough for reality.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
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