“There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.”
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
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Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Song, from Juvenile Poems.
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Source: Julian and Maddalo http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel115.html (1819), l. 170

“ Princeton for the Nation's Service http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/wilsonline/4dn8nsvc.html”, Inaugural address as President of Princeton (25 October 1902); this speech is different from his 1896 speech of the same title.
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Source: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, Gethsemane Night - Pascal's Philosophy p. 284-285