Visions

Famous quotes containing the word visions:

    “Three things there be in man’s opinion dear,
    Fame, many friends, and fortune’s dignities:
    False visions all, which in our sense appear,
    To sanctify desire’s idolatry.”
    —Fulke Greville (1554–1628)

    “The word of the LORD was rare in those days; visions were not widespread.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 3:1.

    “For the most part we think that there are few degrees of sublimity, and that the highest is but little higher than that which we now behold; but we are always deceived. Sublimer visions appear, and the former pale and fade away.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)