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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

Dreams, Poor, Feet

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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

Fear, Angels, Fools

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Time, Idea, Greater

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
William Butler Yeats

Great, God, Black

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

Fear, Angels, Fools

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.
Ovid

Path, Shall, Middle

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Jean Paul

Fall, Heaven, Flowers

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
John Dryden

Beauty, Cannot, Betray

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
Billy Connolly

Friends, Between, Tell

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Horatio Nelson

Humor, Sense, Keep

Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.
David Suzuki

Nature, Time, Remember

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
Thomas Mann

Beauty, Path, Cannot

I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.
Audrey Tautou

Time, Hate, Down

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Everybody, Writers, Frightened

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Fear, Writers, Rush

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Fear, Fools, Rush

I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.
Steve Coogan

Someone, Human, Real

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
Martin Van Buren

Trust, Men, Sacred

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
William C. Bryant

Globe, Tribes, Bosom

I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.
Len Goodman

Won, Eat, Spell

It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world.
Shalom Harlow

Become, Possible, Priority

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
Arna Bontemps

Dreams, Rain, Dance

The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.
Paul Harrison

Control, Poor, Earth

I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.
Bryan Lee O'Malley

Long, Confused, Goal

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