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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
In indolent vacuity of thought.
In indolent vacuity of thought.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Thought is borne of failure.
Thought is borne of failure.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, read more
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Upon the cunning loom of thought
We weave our fancies, so and so.
Upon the cunning loom of thought
We weave our fancies, so and so.
Thought once awakened does not again slumber.
Thought once awakened does not again slumber.
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,
No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
