Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!
H. Rider HaggardTags: imagination illusions future belief dreams religion faith mankind ignorance disagreement hopes vain-hopes
I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.'
'That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us.
Tags: evil solitude judgment vain-hopes
A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.
Ben JohnsonTags: poet senses gates vain-hopes
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