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“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.

— James Allen
Author of As a Man Thinketh
As A Man Thinketh (1902) / Visions and Ideals
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