Quote#Remembrance
The mind while we are in this present life, whether it contemplate,…
Quote byRichard Hooker · 1554–1600
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594), Book V. Ch. lxv. 7, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. II, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 323.
English (original)
The mind while we are in this present life, whether it contemplate, meditate, deliberate, or howsoever exercise itself, worketh nothing without continual recourse unto imagination, the only storehouse of wit and peculiar chair of memory.
— Richard Hooker
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