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My mind is rather on the pursuits of peace, and twenty hours ago I had a dream of settling on the shores of the Sea of Galilee." "Whatever you do," said the general, "give up dreams." "I think you may be right in that," said Lothair, with half a sigh. "Action may not always be happiness," said the general; "but there is no happiness without action.
Thus I account death a truly great and accomplished good thing; the soul being to live there a real life, which here lives not a waking life, but suffers things most resembling dreams.
That will achieve the desired result without making him feel hurt at your lack of understanding in treating him like an ordinary liar whose prime intention is to deceive. But it is not wise to force this development, even at the risk of prolonging the age of dreams. With some children lying is caused by their esthetic feelings.
When first he had dreamed his manhood dreams, before he had found something to do, the man, quite modestly, thought that he knew a great deal. In his school days, he had exhausted many text books and had passed many creditable examinations upon many subjects and so he had thought that he knew a great deal. And he did. He knew a great deal about things.
The Indian was not far wrong; we might easily have fancied ourselves in a Gothic cathedral. The wildest dreams could not picture a stranger, more original, or more fantastic style of architecture. Never did any painter of fairy scenes imagine any effects more splendid. Hundreds of columns hung down from the roof and reached the ground below.
The dream came naturally enough, because she was always dwelling upon the tragedy of her father's death, and in dreams every one knows that faces are always changing. His explanation, however, did not make much impression upon Veronica.
"Will you tell them how Valentine Jernam came by his death?" asked Honoria, in a strange tone. The tramp started, and for a few moments seemed at a loss for words in which to reply. But he recovered himself very quickly, and exclaimed, savagely "I'm not going to tell them any of your senseless dreams and fancies; but I mean to tell them who you are.
They rule the conduct of the Dyak, and therefore receive the same religious homage as their gods do. The Dyak worships his gods. He has good spirits to help him, and evil spirits to harm him. He makes sacrifices to the gods and spirits, and invokes their help in long incantations. He has omens and divination and dreams to encourage or warn him.
Say shall I revel in the dreams of bliss, And give my soul to Nature's dear emotions? In your secret hearts What purpose dwells? Is it the ancient feud Unreconciled, that in your father's halls A moment stilled; beyond the castle gates, Where sits infuriate war, and champs the bit Shall rage anew in mortal, bloody conflict? Concord or strife the fate's decree Is bosomed yet in dark futurity!
At the period upon which I look as having marked the close of my boyhood and the beginning of my youth, four leading sentiments formed the basis of my dreams. The first of those sentiments was love for HER for an imaginary woman whom I always pictured the same in my dreams, and whom I somehow expected to meet some day and somewhere.
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