Building Castles In The Air Quotes

• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

  Richard Whately

  Passion, Air, Words Of Wisdom

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• Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Air, Castles, Easy

  The Master Builder act 3 (1892)

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• There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

  Edward Gibbon

  Writing, Air, Castles

  Edward Gibbon (1869). “The Autobiography and Correspondence of Edward Gibbon, the Historian”, p.164

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• Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross of Christ, we have the means for becoming altogether holy in our walk and conversation. What dungeon is there that can shut us out from this? Only let us use the present location and means faithfully and truly, taking them from God's hand, and we shall find him able to free us from all that is really a hindrance. Let us each one desire to be a saint in his own place and calling, instead of building 'castles in the air' of future holiness.

  Gerhard Tersteegen

  Mean, Air, Hands

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• You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

  John Vanbrugh

  Men, Air, Wife

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.317

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• Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

  Thomas Traherne

  Morning, Father, Angel

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Air, Castles, Cost

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• How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.

  Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

  Men, Past, Air

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• A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Air, Castles, Building

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• Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Writing, Ice, Sea

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• No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

  Charles Churchill

  Air, Castles, Building

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.166

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• Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Clouds, Building, Poor

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• When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.82, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Science, Men, Air

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