“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”

—  James Allen

As A Man Thinketh (1902), Visions and Ideals

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British philosophical writer 1864–1912

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