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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends
Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood
There is nothing like a dream to create the future
The dream is short, repentance long
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men
Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.

Hart-leap Well
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet
Tread softly because you tread on n dreams.

The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
O but we dreamed to mend
Whatever mischief seemed
To afflict mankind, but now
That winds of winter blow
Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

The Tower, 1928. Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
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