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

Thoughts (are) the slaves of life, and life time's fool; / And time, that takes survey of all the world, / Must have a stop. 1 Hen. IV., v. 4.

Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more. Delaune.

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. Emerson.

Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. Young.

Thoughts take up no room. Jeremy Collier. 15

Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. Gray.

Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Wordsworth.

Thoughts that voluntary move / Harmonious numbers. Milton.

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.

Threaten the threatener, and outface the 20 brow / Of bragging horror; so shall inferior eyes, / That borrow their behaviours from the great, / Grow great by your example, and put on / The dauntless spirit of resolution. King John, v. 1.