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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
Modesty
William Hazlitt

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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Deeds and Good Deeds
Herodotus

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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Suggestion
Napoleon Hill

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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Education
Napoleon Hill

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Money
Napoleon Hill

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Power
Napoleon Hill

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Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
Television
Alfred Hitchcock

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The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with others but also with ourselves.
Dissent
Eric Hoffer

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Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?
Control
Raymond Holliwell

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
Action
Marjorie Holmes

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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Originality
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Controversy
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Language
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Truth
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
Courage
Homer

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But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!
Evil
Thomas Hood

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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Temptation
Anthony Hope

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
Thoughts and Thinking
Doug Horton

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
Thoughts and Thinking
Doug Horton

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
Thoughts and Thinking
Doug Horton

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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
Influence
Elbert Hubbard

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There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Pride
Elbert Hubbard

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Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
Kindness
Kin Hubbard

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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Humor
Langston Hughes

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Thoughts and Thinking
Victor Hugo

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun