The thing that is, what can be so wonderful? what, especially to us that are, can have such significance? Carlyle.
The thing that matters most, both for happiness and for duty, is that we should strive habitually to live with wise thoughts and right feelings. J. Morley.
The thing to be anxious about is not to be right with man, but with mankind. Prof. Drummond.
The thing visible, nay, the thing imagined, the thing in any way conceived of as visible, what is it but a garment, a clothing of the higher, celestial invisible, "unimaginable, formless, dark with excess of bright"? Carlyle.
The thing which is deepest rooted in Nature, 25 what we call truest, that, and not the other, will be found growing at last. Carlyle.
The things that destroy us are injustice, insolence, and foolish thoughts; and the things which save us are justice, self-command, and true thought, which things dwell in the loving powers of the gods. Plato.
The things that threatened me, / Ne'er look'd but on my back; when they shall see / The face of Cæsar, they are vanished. Jul. Cæsar, ii. 2.
The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above. Schlegel.
The thinking minds of all nations call for change. There is a deep-lying struggle in the whole fabric of society; a boundless, grinding collision of the new with the old. Carlyle.
The third pays for all. Twelfth Night, v. 1. 30