If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
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Nay, to earth's life in mine some prescience, or dream, or desire(How shall I name it aright?
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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
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Rapture of life ineffable, perfect--as if in the brier,
Leafless there by my door, trembled a sense of the rose.
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