"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."

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"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."

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Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

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"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

George Orwell, British Author

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"When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Wrong thoughts pattern your life towards it for we live our thoughts."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Knowledge is intellectual art."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters."

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"Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for."

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

"When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also."

"Wrong thoughts pattern your life towards it for we live our thoughts."

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

"Knowledge is intellectual art."

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"When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters."

"Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money."

"Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it."

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"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way."

"Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for."

"Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it."

"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."

"He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things."