Dream Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

46 Dream quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s 46 reflections on dreaming carry the weight of his philosophical leanings, turning night‑time thoughts into calls for self‑reliance and higher purpose. Each line feels like a quiet nudge toward inner truth.

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Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

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We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

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A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

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We wake from one dream into another dream.

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“Dream delivers us to dream and there is no end to illusion.”

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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

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A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

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As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams…

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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams

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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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“Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the secret of our own nature. They are test objects.”

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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

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“For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease;…

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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the…

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Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind…

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The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God.…

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In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are…

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Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings…

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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string…

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The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him…

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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man…

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,…

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Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering,…

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Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth…

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If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams,…

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our…

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A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

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Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

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The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

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Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.

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A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

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A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality

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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

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“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams”

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Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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