Quote by Samuel Johnson
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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. – Samuel Johnson

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I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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I would love to spend all my time writing to you Id love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true. – Luigi Pirandello

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Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible. – Henry Reed

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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. – Sigmund Freud

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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. – Bryan Adams

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