Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

The thirst for truth still remains with us, even when we have wilfully left the fountains of it. Ruskin.

The thorny point / Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show / Of smooth civility. As You Like It, ii. 7.

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

The thought is parent of the deed. Carlyle.

The thought of foolishness is sin. Bible. 35

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. Bible.

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord. Bible.

The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. Lapland Pr.

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.

The thrall in person may be free in soul. 40 Tennyson.