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01c. 1842 AD

The disease with which the human mind now labours is want of faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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02c. 1593 AD

The fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, is not restrained only to such friends as are able to give counsel (they indeed are best), but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not.

Francis Bacon / quote

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03c. 1790 AD

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe / quote

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04c. 1842 AD

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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05c. 1790 AD

The little mind will not by daily intercourse with great minds become one inch greater; but the noble man ... will, by a knowledge of, and familiar intercourse with, elevated natures, everyday make a visible approximation to similar greatness.

Goethe / quote

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06c. 1842 AD

The mind goes antagonising on, and never prospers but by fits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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07c. 1642 AD

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pulley is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

Blaise Pascal / quote

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08c. 1842 AD

The revelation of thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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09c. 1593 AD

The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections; for friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

Francis Bacon / quote

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10c. 1790 AD

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

Goethe / quote

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11c. 1790 AD

The sublime produces a beautiful calmness in the soul which, entirely possessed by it, feels as great as it ever can feel. When we compare such a feeling with that we are sensible of when we laboriously harass ourselves with some trifle, and strain every nerve to gain as much as possible for it, as it were, to patch it out, striving to furnish joy and aliment to the mind from its own creation, we then feel sensibly what a poor expedient, after all, the latter is.

Goethe / quote

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12c. 1842 AD

The thought is always prior to the fact; all the facts of history pre-exist in the mind as laws.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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13c. 1790 AD

The thoughts we have had, the pictures we have seen, can be again called back before the mind's eye and before the imagination; but the heart is not so obliging; it does not reproduce its pleasing emotions.

Goethe / quote

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14c. 1842 AD

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life—life passed through the fire of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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15c. 1790 AD

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Goethe / quote

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16c. 1842 AD

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power, and organises a huge instrumentality of means.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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17c. 1842 AD

There never was so great a thought labouring in the breasts of men as now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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18c. 1842 AD

Though the world exists for thought, thought is daunted in presence of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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19c. 1842 AD

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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20c. 1590 AD

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

William Shakespeare / quote

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21c. 1842 AD

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntary opened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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22c. 1790 AD

Thoughts we have had and pictures we have seen can be recalled by the mind; but the heart is not so obliging; it does not reproduce our pleasing emotions.

Goethe / quote

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23c. 1790 AD

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

Goethe / quote

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24c. 1842 AD

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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