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Quotes about Reverie


From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.

William Cowper

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.

William Cowper

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Miriam Beard

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

John Locke

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

William Ellery Channing

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

Charles Simmons

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Antoine Rivarol

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Luis Bunuel

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