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So resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity.

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to tes...more

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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come ...more

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of t...more

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I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, mist...more

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

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Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible pr...more

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Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope ...more

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Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope ...more

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Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise But to be overcast! A voice from out the Future cries, "On! on!" — but o'er the Past (...more