re the makers of the after…world; the architects of heaven。 The world is beautiful because they have lived;without them; laboring humanity would perish。
He who cherishes a beautiful vision; a lofty ideal in his heart; will one day realize it。 Columbus cherished a vision of another world; and he discovered it; Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe; and he revealed it; Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace; and he entered into it。
Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart; the beauty that forms in your mind; the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts; for out of them will grow all delightful conditions; all; heavenly environment; of these; if you but remain true to them; your world will at last be built。
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。
Your circumstances may be uncongenial; but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an ideal and strive to reach it。 You cannot travel within and stand still without。 Here is a youth hard pressed by poverty and labor; confined long hours in an unhealthy workshop; unschooled; and lacking all the arts of refinement。 But he dreams of better things; he thinks of intelligence; of refinement; of grace and beauty。 Unrest urges him to action; and he utilizes all his spare time and means; small though they are; to the development of his latent powers and resources。 Very soon so altered has his mind bee that the workshop can no longer hold him。 It has bee so out of harmony with his mentality that i