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Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

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Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

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Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.

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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

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That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

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When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

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God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

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I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.

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How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

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No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

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Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

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I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.

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It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

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God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

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Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

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Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

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