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Dream Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
- A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality
- We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
- A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
- Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then…
- Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
- A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
- Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.
- Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard,…
- I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also…
- We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
- Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.
- As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.
- Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
- As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
- A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we…
- Hitch your wagon to a star.
- There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
- The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
- Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
- Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I…
- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted,…
- 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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- Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
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- True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
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