"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."
"In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result."
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Source: James Allen (2013). “As a Man Thinketh & The Way of Peace”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
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