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 . . . (ON) DOING GOOD see: "ACTIONS" see: "GOODNESS" see: "KINDNESS" for other related links We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. --attributed to W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907—1973) English-born poet and man of letters. He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars; General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer. --William Blake (1757—1827) English poet. "Jerusalem" ch. 3, plate 55, l. 60 [1815] Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773) British writer and politician. Letter to His Son [10 March 1746]. Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC) Roman orator and statesman. _Oratio Pro Quinto Ligario_, XII As for me, I'd rather be right than be President. --Henry Clay (1777—1852) American politician. [14 February 1850] regarding the Compromise of 1850; in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 577 [2004]. Cohan & Major add: When in 1890 Representative William M. Springer invoked the by then classic words of Clay, he was told by the speaker of the House, Thomas Brackett Reed: 'Well, the gentleman need not be disturbed. He will never be either.' I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts. --William Benton Clulow (1802—1882) English clergyman. _Aphorisms and Reflections_ [1843] When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more. --Henry Fielding (1707—1754) English novelist and dramatist. _The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great_, act I, sc. 3 [1731] The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves. --Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _The Good-Natur'd Man_, ch. 3 [1768] I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. --Edward Everett Hale (1822—1909) American clergyman, writer, and chaplain of the Senate. 'Lend a Hand', in ed. James Dalton Morrison, _Masterpieces of Religious Verse_ [1948]. Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a woman unredressed on earth, or a man or woman left to say, I will redress that wrong, or spend my life in the attempt. --Charles Kingsley (1819—1875) English writer and clergyman. _From Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life_ [1879], vol. II, ch. 28 He is good that does good to others. If he suffers for the good he does, he is better still; and if he suffers from them, to whom he did good, he is arrived to that height of goodness that nothing but an increase of his sufferings can add to it; if it proves his death, his virtue is at its summit — it is heroism complete. --Jean de La Bruyère (1645—1696) French essayist and moralist. Attributed in John Timbs _Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors_ [2nd ed., 1827]. - The *probability* that we may fall in the struggle *ought not* deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it *shall not* deter me. --Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865]. "The Sub-Treasury" speech in the House of Representatives at Springfield, Illinois [26 December 1839]. [Recollection of comment by a man at c. 1820 church meeting:] When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. --Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865]. Quoted in William H. Herndon & Jesse W. Weik _Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life_ [1889]. - No good deed goes unpunished. --attributed to Clare Boothe Luce (1903—1987) American playwright and politician. A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice. --Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis] (38/41—103) Roman poet. _Epigrams_, X, 23 [86-98] Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it Fame. --Alexander Pope (1688—1744) English poet. "Epilogue to the _Satires_" (dialogue I, l. 135, written in 1738) Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. --Pythagoras (582—486 B.C.) Ionian mathematician and philosopher. Attributed in Tryon Edwards (using pseud. Everard Berkeley) _The World's Laconics..._, p. 71 [1853]. Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good, Though the ungrateful subjects of their favors Are barren in return. --Nicholas Rowe (1674—1718) English dramatist, writer, and poet. "Tamerlane", act 2, sc. 2 [1701] The man who seeks to do what is good and genuine, must avoid what is bad and be ready to defy the opinions of the mob, nay, even to despise it and its misleaders. --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860) German philosopher. "The Wisdom of Life" in _Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders [1851]. Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of their way, but must accept their lot calmly, even if people roll a few stones upon it. --Albert Schweitzer (1875—1965) Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor. _Out of My Life and Thought_ [1949] He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 51 [1872]. Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. In a talk to young people, Brooklyn, N.Y. [16 February 1901]. Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. --John Wesley (1703—1791) English preacher and founder, with his brother Charles, of the Methodist movement in the Church of England. "John Wesley's Rule", attributed but not found in his writings. ----- altruism (noun) ['æl-tru-iz-êm] The impulse to help others, ignoring oneself; doing good without selfish motivation. beneficence (noun): 1. The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity. 2. A charitable gift or act. Ex.: Lord Jeffrey told Dickens that it [A Christmas Carol] had "prompted more positive acts of beneficence than can be traced to all the pulpits and confessionals in Christendom since Christmas 1842.  ;void(0)) (ON) DOING NOTHING . . see: "LAZINESS" see: "INDIFFERENCE" for other related links - It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph. --attributed to Edmund Burke (1729—1797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. --attributed to Edmund Burke (1729—1797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. - There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows supine submission to wrong and injustice. --Grover Cleveland (1837—1908) 22nd [1885-1889] and 24th [1893—1897] President of the U.S.. Message to Congress regarding dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain [17 December 1895]. Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing. --Noël Coward (1899—1973) English playwright, actor, and composer. _Future Indefinite_ [1954] Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows. or with both. --Frederick Douglass [Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey] (c.1818—1895) American abolitionist, reformer, and writer. Speech in Canandaigua, N.Y. [3 August 1857]. The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. --attributed to Albert Einstein (1879—1955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. 'Washing one's hands' of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. --Paulo Freire (1921—1997) Brazilian educator. "Study Encounter", vol. 9, no. 1 [1973] They will do whatever we let them get away with. --attributed to Joseph Heller (1923—1999) American novelist. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. --attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929—1968) American civil rights leader. That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. --Pliny the Younger or Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62—c.115) Roman senator and author of a famous collection of letters. _Letters_ bk. 8, letter 9 We who have a Voice must be a Voice for the Voiceless! --attributed to Oscar Romero (Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Goldámez ) (1917—1980) Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop in El Salvador. My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. --Anna Sewell (1820—1878) English author. _Black Beauty_, ch. XXXVIII [1877] If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. --attributed to Bishop Desmond Tutu (b. 1931) South African cleric and winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. . . see: "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links "Dolls," by Robert William Service (1874—1958) British poet. She said: “I am too old to play With dolls,” and put them all away, Into a box, one rainy day. I think she must have felt some pain, She looked so long into the rain, Then sighed: “I’ll bring you out again; “For I’ll have little children too, With sunny hair and eyes of blue And they will play and play with you. “And now good-bye, my pretty dears; There in the dark for years and years, Dream of your little mother’s tears.” Eglantine, Pierrot and Marie Claire, Topsy and Tiny and Teddy Bear, Side by side in the coffer there. Time went by; one day she kneeled By a wooden Cross in Flanders Field, And wept for the One the earth concealed; And made a vow she would never wed, But always be true to the deathless dead, Until the span of her life be sped. ........ More years went on and they made her wise By sickness and pain and sacrifice, With greying tresses and tired eyes. And then one evening of weary rain, She opened the old oak box again, And her heart was clutched with an ancient pain For there in the quiet dark they lay, Just as they were when she put them away… O but it seemed like yesterday! Topsy and Tiny and Teddy Bear, Eglantine, Pierrot and Marie Claire, Ever so hopefully waiting there. But she looked at them through her blinding tears, And she said: “You’ve been patient, my pretty dears; You’ve waited and waited all these years. “I’ve broken a promise I made so true; But my heart, my darlings, is broken too: No little Mothers have I for you. “My hands are withered, my hair is grey; Yet just for a moment I’ll try to play With you as I did that long dead day… “Ah no, I cannot. I try in vain… I stare and I stare into the rain… I’ll put you back in your box again. “Bless you, darlings, perhaps one day, Some little Mother will find you and play, And once again you’ll be glad and gay. “But when in the friendly dark I lie, No one will ever love you as I… My little children… good-bye… good-bye.” . . see: "AGNOSTICS" see: "CERTAINTY" see: "DISTRUST" see: "QUESTIONS" see: "SUSPICION" see: "BELIEF" for other related links see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links The ordinary man doubts nothing and suspects nothing. --Henri Frédérick Amiel (1821—1881) Swiss critic. _Journal Intime_ [1883] If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. --Francis Bacon (1561—1626) English philosopher and essayist. _The Advancement of Learning_ [1605] Weary the path that does not challenge reason. Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. --Hosea Ballou (1771—1852) American theologian. Attributed in Rev. James Wood (ed.) _Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 530 [1893]. O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? --Bible "Matthew" 14:31 - Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, Doubt (called "the father of inventions" by Galileo) be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins? --Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904) American writer. _Intuitions and Summaries of Thought_ [2 vols. 1862] Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. --Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904) American writer. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Pearls of Thought_, p. 235 [1881]. - Materialists and madmen never have doubts. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. _Orthodoxy_, ch. 2 "The Maniac" [1908] By doubting we come at truth. --attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC) Roman orator and statesman. The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even about my doubts. --Gustave Flaubert (1821—1880) French novelist. In Cesare Lombroso's _The Man of Genius_, ch. 1, sec. 3 [1888]. One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. --Henry Ford (1863—1947) American car manufacturer. Quoted in _The American Magazine_, vol. 131 [1941]. We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Maxims and Reflections_ [1819] Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe. --Hermann Hesse (1877—1962) German novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. _Reflections_, # 291 [1974] The attacks upon the [Supreme] Court are merely an expression of the unrest that seems to wonder vaguely whether law and order pay. When the ignorant are taught to doubt, they do not know what they safely may believe. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935) Justice of the United States Supreme Court, legal historian, and philosopher. _Law and the Court_ [1913] The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. --Hungarian Proverb I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything. --T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley (1825—1895) English biologist {grandfather of Aldous Huxley}. Letter to Herbert Spencer [22 March 1886]. Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956) American journalist and literary critic. "What I Believe" in Henry Goddard Leach (ed.) _Forum and Century, vol. 84 [1930]. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. --Wilson Mizner (1876—1933) American playwright. Quoted in Edward Dean Sullivan _The Fabulous Wilson Mizner_ [1935]. Never do anything concerning the rectitude of which you have a doubt. --Pliny the Younger or Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62—c.115) Roman senator and author of a famous collection of letters. Attributed in Adam Wooléver (comp.) _Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor_, p. 114 [3rd ed. 1878]. To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. --Jules Henri Poincaré (1854—1912) French mathematician and philosopher of science. _Science and Hypothsis_ [1903], author's preface The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. --attributed to Bertrand Russell (1872—1970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. --George Santayana (1863—1952) Spanish-born philosopher and critic. _The Life of Reason_, ch. 4 [1905] Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Measure for Measure_, I, iv [1604] There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892) English poet. "In Memoriam A.H.H." [1850] Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. --Laurens van der Post (1906—1996) South African explorer and writer. _The Lost World of the Kalahari_, ch. 3 [1958] Doubt is not a very pleasant status, but certainty is a ridiculous one. --attributed to Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) (1694—1778) French writer and philosopher. ----- dubiety [doo-BY-uh-tee], noun: 1. The condition or quality of being doubtful or skeptical. 2. A matter of doubt. indubitable (adj.) [in-'du-bi-tê-bêl] Doubtless, without doubt, unquestioned; unquestionable. quandary [KWAHN-duh-ree; -dree], noun: A state of difficulty, perplexity, doubt, or uncertainty. . . see: "WAR & PEACE" for related links Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In _Boswell's Life of Johnson_ [10 April 1778]. . . . see: "BED" see: "GOALS" see: "IMAGINATION" see: "NIGHT" see: "REST" see: "SLEEP" see: "LIFE" for other related links see: "THE MIND" for other related links see: "SUCCESS" for other related links Dreams reflect current and future unsolved problems and rehearse their possible solutions. --Alfred Adler (1870—1937) Austrian psychologist. In Geoffrey Dudley's _How to Understand Your Dreams_, ch. 10 [1963]. A sigh can shatter a castle in the air. --William R. Alger (1822—1905) American minister and writer. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 66 [10th ed. 1884]. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. --John Barrymore (John Sidney Blythe) (1882—1942) Shakespearean actor. In Gene Fowler _Good Night, Sweet Prince_ [1943]. Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams — day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing — are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. --L. [Lyman] Frank Baum (1856—1919) American writer. _The Lost Princess of Oz_ [1917] People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. --Sir Max Beerbohm (1872—1956) English satirist and caricaturist. Review of "Peter Pan" in _The Saturday Review_ [7 January 1905]. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. --attributed to Erma Bombeck (1927—1996) American humorist. There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream — whatever that dream might be. --Pearl S. Buck (1892—1973) American author noted for her novels of life in China; winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature. _The Patriot_, pt. 2 [1939] His early dreams of good outstripp'd the truth, And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824) English Romantic poet and satirist. "Lara: A Tale", canto 1, XVIII [1814] The American dream is that any citizen can rise to the highest office in the land. The British dream is that the Queen drops in for tea. --Michael Bywater (b. 1953) British writer and broadcaster. In "Independent" [20 October 1997]. One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. --Dale Carnegie (1888—1955) American writer and lecturer. _How to Stop Worrying and Start Living_ [1948] Life, what is it but a dream? --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898) English writer and logician. _Thorough the Looking-Glass_, ch. 12 [1872] Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears. --Marcus Porcius Cato [byname Cato The Censor, or Cato The Elder] (234—149 BC) Roman statesman, orator, and the first Latin prose writer of importance. Attributed in Thomas Fielding _Select Proverbs Of All Nations_, p. 215 [1824]. Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications. --C.C. Colton (1780—1832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCCCXCVI [1820] Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. --attributed to Russell H. Conwell (1843—1925) American lawyer, author, clergyman, and educator. . . . You know, when you grow up in the suburbs of Sydney or Auckland or Newcastle, like Ridley or Jamie Bell, well, the suburbs of anywhere. You know, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the down side of advantage and relying purely on courage, it's possible. --Russell Crowe (b. 1964) New Zealand-born film actor. Accepting Best Actor Academy Award for 'Gladiator' [2001]. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. --attributed to James Dean (1931—1955) American film actor. - Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making his dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way. --attributed to Walt Disney (1901—1966) American film producer, cartoon artist and the creator of Disneyland. All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them. All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them. --attributed to Walt Disney (1901—1966) American film producer, cartoon artist and the creator of Disneyland. - What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. Quoted in James Comper Gray _The Biblical Museum: Old Testament_, p. 160 [1876]. A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dead we have lost. --Euripides (485?—406 B.C.) Greek dramatist. _Alcestis_ [438 BC], Line 355 The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. --attributed to William Faulkner (1897—1962) American novelist. We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. --Judy Garland [Frances Gumm] (1922—1969) American motion-picture singer and actress. "Imagination," in _Judy Garland_, by Anne Edwards [1975]. Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. --Paul Gauguin (1848—1903) French artist. _Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals_ [1949 ed.] Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. --attributed to Baltasar Gracián (1601—1658) Spanish Jesuit philosopher. The only credential the city [New York] asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from. --Moss Hart (1904—1961) American playwright. _Act One_, pt. II [1959] - Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. --Langston Hughes (1902—1967) American writer and poet. "Dreams" l. I [1929] What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load. Or does it explode? --Langston Hughes (1902—1967) American writer and poet. _Harlem_ [1951] - [On his adolescent love of performance:] At dusk [after attending the movies], I would gather our Kew Beach School gang and tell them the movies. I played all the parts, made all the sound effects, played horrific scenes of violent death — gunned down by the law, taking an Indian arrow in my back, whirling as the shots hit, and falling, hand clutched to my heart. Dying, they said, was the highlight of my repertoire. I remember sitting at dinner with my parents, my mother serving soup, and I would suddenly clutch my chest, eyes bulging, and topple off the chair onto the floor. I'd writhe there for a while, arms over my chest, making horrible sounds while my parents continued to talk, spoon the soup, step over me to take their plates to the kitchen. --Norman Jewison (b. 1926) Canadian film director. _This Terrible Business Has Been Good To Me_ [2005] Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. --attributed to Carl Gustav Jung (1875—1961) Swiss psychologist. - I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! --Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929—1968) American civil rights leader. Keynote address at the Civil Rights March at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington [28 August 1963]. - - There's a long, long trail a-winding Into the land of my dreams, Where the nightingales are singing And a white moon beams: There's a long, long night of waiting Until my dreams all come true; Till the day when I'll be going down That long, long trail with you. --Stoddard King (1889—1933) American humorist and author and [Alonzo] Zo Elliott (1891—1964) American composer and lyricist, "There's a Long, Long Trail" [1913] - All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. --T. E. Lawrence (1888—1935) English soldier and writer. _The Seven Pillars of Wisdom_ [1926] And what they dare to dream of, dare to do. --James Russell Lowell (1819—1891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, st. III [21 July 1865] - It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. --Benjamin E. Mays (1894—1984) American educator and president of Morehead College. Quoted in "The Crisis" [October 1979]. - Last night the thermometer dropped from 95 to 59. I dreamed that you and I were cruising the Mediterranean on my 30,000-ton yacht, the Kaiser Wilhelm II, with an orchestra of 118 pieces to entertain us, and 1,000 kegs of beer in the hold. Today I mixed and laid concrete for four hours. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956) American journalist and literary critic. Letter to Sara Haardt. - They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. --Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849) American poet and short-story writer. "Eleonora" [1841] All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. --Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849) American poet and short-story writer. "A Dream Within a Dream" l. 10 [1849] - Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. --Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919) American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909]. Quoted in "Judge's Library: A Magazine of Fun" [September 1906]. In a dream, you are never eighty. --Anne Sexton (1928—1974) American poet who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. "Old", l. 18 [1962] To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Hamlet_, III, i [1601] You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' --George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] _Back to Methuselah_, pt. I, act I [1921] How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true! --Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946) American-born man of letters. _Afterthoughts_ [1931] Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly. --Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. _Treasure Island_, ch. 15[1883] If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. --Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. "Conclusion" in _Walden_ [1854] Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. (First attributed to Twain around 1990; probably apocryphal.) If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. --William Arthur Ward (1921—1994) American college administrator and author. Quoted in Karen Casey & Martha Vanceburg _The Promise of a New Day_ [1983]. I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. --William Butler Yeats (1865—1939) Irish poet and dramatist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven", l. 7 [1899] -- I had a dream the other night. I was in the old West riding in a stagecoach. Suddenly, a man riding a horse pulled up to the left side of the stagecoach, and a riderless horse pulled up on the right. The man leaned down, pulled open the door, and jumped off his horse into the stagecoach. Then he opened the other door and jumped onto the other horse. Just before he rode off, I yelled out, "What was that all about?" He replied, "Nothing. It's just a stage I'm going through." -- Last night I had a dream, A dream that made me laugh, I dreamt I was a bar of soap, And you were in the bath! --anon. I dreamt of a virile young stud, We rolled like two pigs in the mud, We spent half an hour, Making love in the shower, Then I fell out of bed with a thud. --anon. ----- oneiric [oh-NY-rik], adjective: Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of dreams; dreamy. quixotic (adj.) 1. Excessively romantic: tending to take a romanticized view of life. 2. Impractical: motivated by an idealism that overlooks practical considerations. reverie [REV-uh-ree], noun: 1. A state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing. 2. A daydream. 3. A fantastic, visionary, or impractical idea. woolgathering [WOOL-gath-(uh)-ring], noun: Indulgence in idle daydreaming. end page | DANCING - DAY | DEATH - PAGE 1 (A-G) | DEATH - PAGE 2 (H-Z) | DEBATE - DEEDS | DECEPTION | DEFEAT - DELAY | DEMOCRACY | DENIAL - DESIRE | DESPAIR - DICKENS (CHARLES) | DICTIONARY - DILIGENCE | DINNER - DISABILITY | DISAGREEMENT - DISGUISE | DISHONESTY - DOCTORS | DOGS | (ON) DOING GOOD - DREAMS | DRESS - DRUNKENNESS | DUELS - DUTY | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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