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A.A. Milne1 quote
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. — A.A. Milne · 1928Charlotte Bronte1 quote
The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed. — Charlotte Bronte · 1846David1 quote
The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts. — David · 430 BCGeorge Eliot1 quote
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. — George Eliot · 1876George Orwell1 quote
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. — George Orwell · 1949Henri-Frederic Amiel1 quote
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. — Henri-Frederic Amiel · 1883Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1 quote
Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1878Hermann Hesse1 quote
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. — Hermann Hesse · 1919Jane Welsh Carlyle1 quote
Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability! — Jane Welsh Carlyle · 1836John Webster1 quote
There's nothing of so infinite vexation
As man's own thoughts. — John Webster · 1612Marcus Aurelius1 quote
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Mark Twain1 quote
Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head. — Mark Twain · 1910Michel de Montaigne1 quote
There is no man, good as he may be, who, if all his thoughts and actions were submitted to the scrutiny of the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580Nathaniel Hawthorne1 quote
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!
What jailer so inexorable as one's self! — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1851Oscar Wilde1 quote
To recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable, is the ultimate achievement of wisdom. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? — Oscar Wilde · 1897Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1847Sarah Orne Jewett1 quote
In the life of each of us, I said to myself there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness. — Sarah Orne Jewett · 1896Vera Caspary1 quote
If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed... There would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind. — Vera Caspary · 1943