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Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so.

First thoughts are not always the best.

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.

I'll put that in my considering cap.

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

Sow a thought and reap an act.

Never express yourself more clearly than you think.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

The first thought is often the best. - Bishop Joseph Butler,

I stood Among them, but not of them: in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.

What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind!

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

Thought once awakened does not again slumber.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.