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dation is his ignorance.--_Lady Morgan._ Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.--_George Eliot._ The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.--_George Herbert._ Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced; it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction.--_Johnson._ ~Illusion.~--In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.--_Madame Swetchine._ Illusion is the first of all pleasures.--_Voltaire._ ~Imagination.~--We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.--_George Eliot._ A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.--_Spurgeon._ He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.--_Joubert._ No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.--_Johnson._ ~Imitation.~--Imitators are a servile race.--_Fontaine._ Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.--_Dr. Vinet._ "Name to me an animal, though never so skillful, that I cannot imitate!" So bragged the ape to the fox. But the fox replied, "And do thou name to me an animal so humble as to think of imitating thee."--_Lessing._ ~Immortality.~--When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future; when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries thence arising; I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.--_Cicero._ Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and consequently imperishable.--_Aristotle._ The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.--_Milton._ All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.--_Socrates._ What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.--_Marcus Antoninus._ The seed dies into a n
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