Visions Quotes
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“Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimæras dire.”
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
“Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence!”
“I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes.”
“And like a passing thought, she fled
In light away.”
“Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quæ in Dei visione consistit.”
“The vision you saw was real, but what you saw in the vision wasn’t.”
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“Fond man! the vision of a moment made!
Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!”
“Visions of glory, spare my aching sight!
Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul.”
“But shapes that come not at an earthly call,
Will not depart when mortal voices bid.”
“The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme!
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!”
“O visions ill foreseen! Better had I
Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne
My part of evil only.”
“My thoughts by night are often filled
With visions false as fair:
For in the past alone I build
My castles in the air.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”