Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
Few men have imagination enough for reality.