“Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie”
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“Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie”
“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.”
“Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect”
“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams”
“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service”
“How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!”
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without a vision is a nightmare.”