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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air. - William R. Alger Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up! - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free. - Thomas Carlyle No tribute is laid on castles in the air. - Charles Churchill 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 von Herder Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air. - Jonathan Swift Leaving the wits the spacious air, With license to build castles there. - Jonathan Swift Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. - William Makepeace Thackeray 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
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