I am giddy; expectation whirls me around.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense. [ William Shakespeare ]
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones! [ Lavater ]
Except pain of body and remorse of conscience, all our evils are imaginary. [ Rousseau ]
Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them. [ Swift ]
Let us not make imaginary evils when we have so many real ones to encounter. [ Goldsmith ]
That happiness may enter the soul, we must first sweep it clean of all imaginary evils. [ Fontanelle ]
When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real, too. [ Greville ]
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home. [ Milton ]
The stoical exemption which philosophy affects to give us over the pains and vexations of human life is as imaginary as the state of mystical quietism and perfection aimed at by some crazy enthusiast. [ Scott ]
Imaginary evils soon become real ones, by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall, or the wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied. [ Swift ]
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative In your reading; to read faithfully and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in, - a real, not an imaginary - and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in. [ Carlyle ]
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary. [ Colton ]