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When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,
And in a dream as in a fairy bark
Drift on and on through the enchanted dark
To purple daybreak--little thought we pay
To that sweet bitter world we know by day.
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Source: Sonnet--Sleep
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Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain,
We'll have our pleasure o'er again,
To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.
Author: Joanna Baillie
Source: The Phantom--Song
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If there were dreams to sell,
What would you buy?
Some cost a passing bell;
Some a light sigh,
That shakes from Life's fresh crown
Only a rose-leaf down.
If there were dreams to sell,
Merry and sad to tell,
And the crier rung the bell,
What would you buy?
Author: Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Source: Dream-Pedlary
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And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my
spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall
see visions:
And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days
will I pour out my spirit.
Author: Bible
Source: Joel (ch. II, v. 28-29)
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As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou
shalt despise their image.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. LXXIII, v. 20)
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"Come to me, darling; I'm lonely without thee;
Daytime and nighttime I'm dreaming about thee."
Author: Joseph Brenan (Brennan)
Source: The Exile To His Wife
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Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate,
For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.
Author: Michael Bruce
Source: Elegy on Spring
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I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls,
With vassals and serfs at my side,
And of all who assembled within those walls,
That I was the hope and the pride.
Author: Alfred Bunn
Source: Bohemian Girl (Arline at act II, sc. 2, a song)
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I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Darkness
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And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They have a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Dream (st. 1)
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Dream (st. 3)
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All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Author: Elias Canetti
Source: Die Provinz der Menschen
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The fisher droppeth his net in the stream,
And a hundred streams are the same as one;
And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream;
And what is it all, when all is done?
The net of the fisher the burden breaks,
And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.
Author: Alice Cary
Source: Lover's Diary
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Again let us dream where the land lies sunny
And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,
Away from the world that slaves for money--
Come, journey the way with me.
Author: Madison Julius Cawein
Source: Song of the Road
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Like the dreams,
Children of night, of indigestion bred.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Candidate (l. 784)
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My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: A Day Dream
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And so, his senses gradually wrapt
In a half sleep, he dreams of better worlds,
And dreaming hears thee still, O singing lark;
That singest like an angel in the clouds.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Fears in Solitude
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Dream after dream ensues;
And still they dream that they shall still succeed;
And still are disappointed.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. III, l. 127)
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Dream the impossible dream.
Author: Joe Darion
Source: part of a song
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Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes;
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Fables--The Cock and the Fox (l. 325)
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In blissful dream, in silent night,
There came to me, with magic might,
With magic might, my own sweet love,
Into my little room above.
Author: Heinrich Heine
Source: Youthful Sorrows (pt. VI, st. 1)
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Fly, dotard, fly!
With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. II, l. 207), (Pope's translation)
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Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams,
Unnatural and full of contradictions;
Yet others of our most romantic schemes
Are something more than fictions.
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: The Haunted House (pt. I)
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream,--
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
Author: Victor Hugo
Source: Early Love Revisited
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Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And say, within the moonlight in his room,
Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,
An angel, writing in a book of gold;
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And to the presence in the room he said--
"What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head,
And, with a look made all of sweet accord,
Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."
Author: Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt)
Source: Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel
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In dreams begins responsibility.
Author: William Butler Yeats
Source: None
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Dreams are necessary to life.
Author: Anais Nin
Source: None
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Author: Anais Nin
Source: None
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Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Author: Marsha Norman
Source: None
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.
Author: Arthur O'Shaunessey
Source: None
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That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourselves.
Author: Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Source: None
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If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Author: J. M. Power
Source: None
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Author: Terry Pratchett
Source: None
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There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.
Author: B. Quilliam
Source: None
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A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Author: Zadok Rabinwitz
Source: None
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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Author: Christopher Reeve
Source: None
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Author: Tupac Shakur
Source: None
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: None
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Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.
Author: Ellen Simon
Source: None
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Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.
Author: Roger Starr
Source: None
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Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
Author: L. J. Suenens
Source: None
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: None
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I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
Author: Debi Thomas
Source: None
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Author: Dale Turner
Source: None
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The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams.
Author: Harold E. Wagoner
Source: None
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I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
Author: Bill Watterson
Source: None
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Source: None
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Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: None
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