Quotes with thought-forms

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  • Victor Hugo A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • John Galsworthy A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Jonson A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Henry David Thoreau A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Edward F. Halifax A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Lionel Trilling A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Warren Buffett A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Al Goldstein A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Aaron Spelling A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Doris Lessing A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Gotthold Lessing A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
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  • Robert Collier A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Epictetus A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Burt Bacharach A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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