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Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods
Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations - always darker, emptier, simpler than these
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again
The ancestor of every action is a thought
In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Lines written in Early Spring
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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