#reverie

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Charles Simmons

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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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