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Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body. - Jeremy Collier Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves. - Charles Caleb Colton Thought precedes the will to think, and error lives ere reason can be born. - William Congreve While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. - Cyril Connolly 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, Characteristics--Essay on The Freedom of Wit and Humour (sec. I) The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking. - William Cowper Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought. - William Cowper In indolent vacuity of thought. - William Cowper, Task (bk. IV, The Winter Evening, l. 297) Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run. - Sir William D'Avenant Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers. - Madame Marie Anne du Deffand Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. - Rene Descartes I think, therefore I am. [Fr., Je pense, donc je suis.] - Rene Descartes, Principes de la Philosophie (I, sec. VII) Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. - attributed to James Dewar Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought. - Dr. John Donne I scarcely understand my own intent, but, silkworm-like, so long within have wrought, that I am lost in my own web of thought. - John Dryden Words are but pictures of our thoughts. - John Dryden He trudg'd along, unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. - John Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 84) Second thoughts, they say, are best. - John Dryden, The Spanish Friar (act II, sc. 2) What was once thought can never be unthought. - Friedrich Durrenmatt One thought cannot awake without awakening others. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein Displaying page 4 of 14 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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