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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.
Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
First thoughts are not always the best.
[It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.]
First thoughts are not always the best.
[It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.]
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
What we think, we become.
What we think, we become.
Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than
their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd read more
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,
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
