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.
In plain words
Big dreams are a great start. Now build something solid underneath them.
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Walden (1854), 'Conclusion' chapter — grepped verbatim in the staged Gutenberg text (id 205).
- Walden
- 1854 · The 'Conclusion' chapter, on turning big dreams into something real.
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