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01c. 1425 AD

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Thomas À Kempis / quote

02c. 1565 AD

A peny for your thought.

John Heywood / quote

03c. 1573 AD

My mind to me a kingdom is; Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind: Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.

Edward Dyer / quote

04c. 1586 AD

Was never eie did see that face, Was never eare did heare that tong, Was never minde did minde his grace, That ever thought the travell long; But eies and eares and ev'ry thought Were with his sweete perfections caught.

Mathew Roydon / quote

05c. 1576 AD

The noblest mind the best contentment has.

Edmund Spenser / quote

06c. 1576 AD

That darksome cave they enter, where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.

Edmund Spenser / quote

07c. 1570 AD

High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

Sir Philip Sidney / quote

08c. 1570 AD

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

Sir Philip Sidney / quote

09c. 1591 AD

And out of mind as soon as out of sight.

Lord Brooke / quote

10c. 1595 AD

Cornelia. What flowers are these? Gazetta. The pansy this. Cor. Oh, that 's for lovers' thoughts.

George Chapman / quote

11c. 1590 AD

As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out thorough, and his frailty find.

Samuel Daniel / quote

12c. 1590 AD

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

William Shakespeare / quote

13c. 1590 AD

Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly.

William Shakespeare / quote

14c. 1590 AD

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare / quote

15c. 1590 AD

O Father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

William Shakespeare / quote

16c. 1590 AD

Duke. And what 's her history? Vio. A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.

William Shakespeare / quote

17c. 1590 AD

An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I 'ld have challenged him.

William Shakespeare / quote

18c. 1590 AD

Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,—which is an excellent thing.

William Shakespeare / quote

19c. 1590 AD

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

William Shakespeare / quote

20c. 1590 AD

I thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen.

William Shakespeare / quote

21c. 1590 AD

Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread.

William Shakespeare / quote

22c. 1590 AD

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

William Shakespeare / quote

23c. 1590 AD

Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.

William Shakespeare / quote

24c. 1590 AD

There 's no art To find the mind's construction in the face.

William Shakespeare / quote