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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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The point of aim for our vigilance to hold in view is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect, to call off the thoughts when running upon disagreeable objects, and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances surrounding us.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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The universe is one of God's thoughts.
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The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.
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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
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The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.
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