Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, whatever he pleases, and as much as he pleases; he will never know anything of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Pestalozzi.
Thinking nurseth thinking. Sir P. Sidney. 25
This above all; to thine own self be true, / And it must follow as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man. Ham., i. 3.
This bodes some strange eruption to our state. Ham., i. 1.
This century is not ripe for my ideal; I live a citizen of those that are to come. Schiller.
"This comes of walking on the earth." The Spanish swell, as he picked himself up from the ground. Sp. Pr.
This communicating of a man's self to his 30 friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in halves. Bacon.
This day / Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love. Henry V., v. 2.
This day's propitious to be wise in. Burns.
This even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice / To our own lips. Macb., i. 7.