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William Shakespeare4 quotes
O, who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow
By thinking on fantastic summer’s heat? — William Shakespeare · 1595There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. — William Shakespeare · 1616My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel. — William Shakespeare · 1592Make not your thoughts your prisons. — William Shakespeare · 1607Epictetus1 quote
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus · 125Hedley Lamarr1 quote
My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Hedley Lamarr · 1974Henry 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 · 1878Mahatma Gandhi1 quote
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. — Mahatma Gandhi · 1922Mark 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 · 1910Matthew Arnold1 quote
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think. — Matthew Arnold · 1861Michel 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 · 1580Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1847Victor Hugo1 quote
One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor and invisible labor. — Victor Hugo · 1862