Quote by John Locke
When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of t

When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. – John Locke

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. – John Locke

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Time
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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. – John Locke

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Knowledge
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. – Anaïs Nin

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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. – W.H. Auden

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Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie. – Henry David Thoreau

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It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. – James Douglas

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Persevere and get it done. – George Allen

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If golf wasnt enjoyable and there wasnt a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it. – Ray Romano

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If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. – Phil Jackson

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If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

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