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«In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.»
«It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.»
Author: Colley Cibber (Actor, Playwright) | About: Thought, Time | Keywords: after death, firmer
«Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.»
«It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.»
«It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others»
Author: Marquis De Sade (Novelist) | About: Thought | Keywords: caused, misfortunes, mode
«In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | About: Thought | Keywords: mood, pleasant
«If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.»
Author: Casey Stengel (Baseball Player, Manager) | About: Thought | Keywords: pennant, pennants
«I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!»
«If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought»
«It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st»

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