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Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of
God.
[Lat., Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quae in Dei visione
consistit.]
Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
Source: Summa Theologie, probably the origin of the phrase "beatific vision"
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I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied
visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
Author: Bible
Source: Hosea (ch. XII, v. 10)
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Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth
the law, happy is he.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIX, v. 18)
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And like a passing thought, she fled
In light away.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: The Vision (last lines)
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The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme!
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Absalom and Achtiphel (pt. I, l. 238)
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So little distant dangers seem:
So we mistake the future's face,
Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass;
As yon summits soft and fair,
Clad in colours of the air,
Which to those who journey near,
Barren, brown, and rough appear.
Author: John Dyer
Source: Gronger Hill (l. 884)
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Visions of glory, spare my aching sight!
Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: The Bard (III, 1, l. 11)
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I wonder if ever a song was sung but the singer's heart sang
sweeter!
I wonder if ever a rhyme was rung but the thought surpassed the
meter!
I wonder if ever a sculptor wrought till the cold stone echoed
his ardent thought!
Or, if ever a painter with light and shade the dream of his
inmost heart portrayed!
Author: James Clarence Harvey
Source: Incompleteness
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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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It is a dream, sweet child! a waking dream,
A blissful certainty, a vision bright,
Of that rare happiness, which even on earth
Heaven gives to those it loves.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Spanish Student (act III, sc. 5)
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An angel stood and met my gaze,
Through the low doorway of my tent;
The tent is struck, the vision stays;
I only know she came and went.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: She Came and Went
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Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 628)
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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I
Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne
My part of evil only.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 763)
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My thoughts by night are often filled
With visions false as fair:
For in the past alone, I build
My castles in the air.
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
Source: Castles in the Air (st. 1)
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Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme,
The air-built castle, and the golden dream,
The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame,
And poet's vision of eternal fame.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: The Dunciad (bk. III, l. 9)
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Our revels are now ended. These our actors
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all of which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Is rounded with a sleep.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tempest (Prospero at IV, i)
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Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence!
- Horace Smith and James Smith,
Author: Horace Smith and James Smith
Source: Rejected Addresses--An Address without a Phoenix--By "S.T.P.", (not an imitation, initials used to p
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But shapes that come not at an earthly call,
Will not depart when mortal voices bid.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Dion (V)
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Fond man! the vision of a moment made!
Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
Author: Edward Young
Source: Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job (l. 187)
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