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A 'Bummel', I explained, I should describe as a journey, long orshort, without an end; the only thing regulating it being the necessityof getting back within a given time to the point from which one started. Sometimes it is through busy streets, and sometimes through the fieldsand lanes; sometimes we can be spared for a few hours, and sometimes fora few days. But long or short, but here or there, our thoughts are everon the running of the sand. We nod and smile to many as we pass; withsome... Jerome K. Jerome
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to..."
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other. Marcel Duchamp
Margaret Atwood quote: "If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged."
If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged. Margaret Atwood
How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it. Virginia Woolf
Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts? Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad. Marcel Proust
Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare Rides upon sleep: a drunken soldiery Can leave the mother, murdered at her door, To crawl in her own blood, and go scott-free; The night can sweat with terror as before. We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. William Butler Yeats
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality. Isabel Allende
To please Go? to be a real ingredient in the divine happines? to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is. C. S. Lewis
Charles Darwin quote: "The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we..."
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts. Charles Darwin
Wallace Stevens quote: "We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright..."
We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in cold. Wallace Stevens
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. Victor Hugo
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. Mahatma Gandhi
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. Thomas Fuller

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