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Upon the cunning loom of thought
We weave our fancies, so and so.
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Source: Cloth of Gold--Prelude
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First thoughts are not always the best.
[It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.]
Author: Vittorio Alfieri
Source: Don Garzia (III, 1)
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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the
unoriginal elements which they contain.
Author: Vittorio Alfieri
Source: Don Garzia (III, 1)
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a
thought without accepting it.
Author: Vittorio Alfieri
Source: Don Garzia (III, 1)
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The kings of modern thought are dumb.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse
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Great thoughts, like great deeds, need
No trumpet.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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I'll put that in my considering cap.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Loyal Subject (act II, sc. 1)
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Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither
desire thou his dainty meats:
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith
he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIII, v. 6-7)
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Sow a thought and reap an act.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIII, v. 6-7)
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Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
Author: Niels Henrik David Bohr
Source: Einstein Lived Here
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Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Caxtoniana (essay XIV)
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The first thought is often the best.
- Bishop Joseph Butler,
Author: Bishop Joseph Butler
Source: Sermon on the Character of Balaam--Seventh Sermon
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I stood
Among them, but not of them: in a shroud
Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 113)
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Whatsoe'er thy birth,
Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 115)
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What exile from himself can flee?
To zones, though more and more remote,
Still, still pursues, where'er I be,
The blight of life--the demon Thought.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold--To Inez (canto I, st. 84, l. 6)
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The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Corsair (canto I, st. 8)
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Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all
others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture I)
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture I)
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LVII)
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: Epistle to Wm. Hogarth (l. 645)
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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it.
Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in
errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt)
sapientiores solent esse.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Philippicoe (XII, 2)
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Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,
And yet consider it again!
Author: Arthur Hugh Clough
Source: Ah, yet Consider it Again
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Old things need not be therefore true,
O brother men, nor yet the new;
Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,
And yet consider it again!
Author: Arthur Hugh Clough
Source: Ah, yet Consider it Again
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Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than
their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by
study, or consultation with casuists.
- Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,
Author: Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Source: Characteristics--Essay on The Freedom of Wit and Humour (sect. I)
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In indolent vacuity of thought.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. IV, The Winter Evening, l. 297)
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: None
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The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
Author: John Locke
Source: None
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No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
Author: Thomas L. Masson
Source: None
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I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
Author: Wilson Mizner
Source: None
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Author: Thomas Paine
Source: None
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A library is thought in cold storage.
Author: Herbert Samuel
Source: None
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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.
Author: Diamond Sutra
Source: None
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One thought fills immensity.
Author: William Blake
Source: None
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
Author: Victor Hugo
Source: None
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: None
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We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
Author: Jams Harvey Robinson
Source: None
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Author: Salman Rushdie
Source: None
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Thought is borne of failure.
Author: Lancelot Law Whyte
Source: None
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It is better to light 1 candle
than to curse the darkness.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: None
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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
Author: Christian Nestell Bovee
Source: None
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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
Author: Niels Bohr
Source: None
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All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
Author: Robert Frost
Source: None
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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to.
Author: J.r.r. Tolkien
Source: None
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Learning without thought is labor lost.
Author: Confucius
Source: None
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