We are such stuff / As dreams are made on

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1. A line from the play The Tempest, by William Shakespeare; it continues, “and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.” It is spoken by the magician Prospero. He has just made a large group of spirits vanish and is reminding his daughter and her fiancé that mortal life also ends quickly.

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We are such stuff / As dreams are made on

On one occasion he wrote of the topic round which most metaphysical speculation revolves:— We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded by a sleep.

From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Sir Sidney Lee

There is no passage which Mr. Carlyle so often quotes as the sublime— We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by John Morley

We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.—Sir,

From The Tempest by William Shakespeare

He remembered them now: We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

From New Grub Street by George Gissing

Lincoln: We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life ...

From Abraham Lincoln by John Drinkwater

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