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All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again
The ancestor of every action is a thought
In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Lines written in Early Spring
O Reader! had you in your mind
Such stores as silent thought can bring,
O gentle Reader! you would find
A tale in everything.
Such stores as silent thought can bring,
O gentle Reader! you would find
A tale in everything.
Simon Lee
Yet sometimes, when the secret cup
Of still and serious thought went round,
It seemed as if he drank it up,
He felt with spirit so profound.
Of still and serious thought went round,
It seemed as if he drank it up,
He felt with spirit so profound.
And many a poor man that has roved
Loved and thought himself beloved
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
Loved and thought himself beloved
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
Michael Robartes and the Dancer, 1921. A Prayer for My Daughter
They would not find me changed from him they knew
Only more sure of all I thought was true.
Only more sure of all I thought was true.
Into My Own, 1913
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