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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Emotions
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
Thoughts and Thinking
Friedrich Nietzsche

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts
Mind
Earl Nightingale

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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Kwame Nkrumah

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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
Temptation
Margaret Oliphant

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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
Language
George Orwell

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Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Speakers and Speaking
Sir William Osler

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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Posterity
Thomas Paine

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Thoughts and Thinking
Blaise Pascal

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Thoughts and Thinking
Blaise Pascal

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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
Wisdom
John Patrick

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
Change
Jean Paul

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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Change
Norman Vincent Peale

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
God
Petronius

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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
Amusement
Phaedrus

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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Puritans
Wendell Phillips

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I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.
Health
Peace Pilgrim

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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Negativity
Peace Pilgrim

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Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
Possibilities
Peace Pilgrim

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
Love
Peace Pilgrim

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.
Thoughts and Thinking
Huang Po

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Memory
Alexander Pope

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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
Wit
Alexander Pope

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.
Love
Proverb

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.
Courage
Proverb

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