"But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts."

Vision, Imagination, Hope, Thought

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"But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts."

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"Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

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"The most valuable people in the world are "Visionary People"."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"The vision teller tells the vision to unguarded minds' of prey. The programmed."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

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"Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Vision, Truth, Inspirational, Wisdom, Power

"We incessantly vacillate between what's behind us and what's before us depending on the current barometer of our courage and the ambivalent nature of our vision."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"You ought to have a vivid picture of what you want."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Vision is the code that decodes every mediocrity out of life."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"What differentiates victors and victims are visions and vigor. Victims won't get the vim to step out of their situations."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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Explore more quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breezeBy lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask."

Detail

"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."

Advice

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order."

Poetry

"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

Architecture

"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."

Imagination

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."

Happiness

"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."

Enthusiasm

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