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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Gratitude
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Speakers and Speaking
Ann Landers

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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Thoughts and Thinking
Walter Savage Landor

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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Sorrow
Stephen B. Leacock

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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
Thoughts and Thinking
Stanislaw J. Lec

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Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Enemies
Bruce Lee

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
Age and Aging
Tom Lehrer

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
Prayer
Doris Lessing

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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Prayer
Gotthold Lessing

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The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
Magic
George Henry Lewes

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Fools and Foolishness
Abraham Lincoln

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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Vow
Abraham Lincoln

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.
Action
James Liter

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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Thoughts and Thinking
John Locke

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Logic is the anatomy of thought.
Logic
John Locke

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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Action
John Locke

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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Love
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
Mind
Anita Loos

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I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.
Golf
Davis III Love

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I never thought I didn't have a card to play.
Perseverance
Jim Lovell

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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
Introspection
James Russell Lowell

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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Thomas B. Macaulay

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
Friends and Friendship
Aaron Machado

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If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.
Editing and Editors
Kelvin Mackenzie

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