Thought is deeper than all speech, What unto themselves was taught. -Cranch. Fancies, like wild flowers, in a night may grow; But thoughts are plants whose stately growth is slow. -Mrs.E. C. Kinneu. Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control They will condense within thy soul And change to purpose strong. -Newman. O shame! shame! shame! That you, a noble man, Should be so little noble in your thoughts. The keen spirit -Longfellow. Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes. -Hannah More. I am of opinion that there is nothing of any kind so beautiful, but there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression-as a portrait is from a person's face-a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the thoughts of our minds. -Cicero. To each his sufferings; all are men, Yet, ah! why should they know their fate? And happiness too swiftly flies; -Thomas Gray. Mere thought convinces; feeling always persuades. If imagination furnishes the fact with wings, feeling is the great stout muscle which plies them, and lifts him from the ground. Thought sees beauty, emotion feels it. -Theodore Parker. Evil is wrought by want of thought, -Hood. There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. -Emerson. We are wrong always, when we think too much We're no less selfish. If we sleep on rocks We're lazy. -Mrs. Browning. Pride (of all others the most dangerous fault) The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. -Boice. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. -Sir Philip Sidney. True dignity abides with him alone, Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, -Wordsworth. By means of speech, our thoughts are conveyed to each other. One may judge how much he is indebted to this fact tor the knowledge that he possesses, and even for many of those views which he supposes to have cropped out from his own individual brain, by comparing the man of society with one who has been all his life isolated from his kind. -Webster Ah! as you say, we ought to slip over many thoughts that pass through our minds, and pretend not to see them. -Sévigné. However cleverly or wisely a man may think, nobody is the better for his thoughts unless he lets them out. It is also better, for their own sake, that they should take the air; for the correct expression of one's ideas is an aid to correct thinking. Rivers that run are clearer than stagnant pools and sluggish streams. -Webster. When a thought presents itself to our minds as a profound discovery, and when we take the trouble to examine it, we often find it to be a truth that all the world knows. -Vauvenargues. The index on the dial plate shows not more plainly the hour, than does the eye the thought passing in the mind. -Webster. YOUTH. O blissful days, when Youth's young dreams, -J. C. H. Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently, is the forming, fixing period, the spring season of disposition and habit; and it is during this season, more than any other, that the character assumes its permanent shape and color, and the young are wont to take their course for time and for eternity. -J. Hawes. How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams No danger daunts it, and no foe withstands: Be thou removed!' it, to the mountain, saith, And with ambitious feet, secure and proud, Ascends the ladder leaning on the cloud! -Longfellow. |