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01c. 1810 AD

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth / quote

02c. 1810 AD

And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

William Wordsworth / quote

03c. 1810 AD

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,—a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

William Wordsworth / quote

04c. 1810 AD

Where music dwells Lingering and wandering on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.

William Wordsworth / quote

05c. 1810 AD

But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.

William Wordsworth / quote

06c. 1810 AD

To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind that builds for aye.

William Wordsworth / quote

07c. 1801 AD

True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.

Sir Walter Scott / quote

08c. 1801 AD

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

Sir Walter Scott / quote

09c. 1801 AD

Still are the thoughts to memory dear.

Sir Walter Scott / quote

10c. 1812 AD

Return unto thy rest, my soul, From all the wanderings of thy thought, From sickness unto death made whole, Safe through a thousand perils brought.

James Montgomery / quote

11c. 1803 AD

Perhaps 't is pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge / quote

12c. 1803 AD

All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge / quote

13c. 1803 AD

It sounds like stories from the land of spirits If any man obtains that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. . . . . . . . Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures,—love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,— Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge / quote

14c. 1803 AD

I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,— His eyes are in his mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge / quote

15c. 1804 AD

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Charles Lamb / quote

16c. 1810 AD

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind! What though my winged hours of bliss have been Like angel visits, few and far between.

Thomas Campbell / quote

17c. 1814 AD

Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything and everything is nought.

Horace Smith / quote

18c. 1815 AD

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

Thomas Moore / quote

19c. 1823 AD

In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, kings, lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.

Lord Brougham / quote

20c. 1817 AD

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Daniel Webster / quote

21c. 1803 AD

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

Jane Taylor / quote

22c. 1803 AD

Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.

Jane Taylor / quote

23c. 1806 AD

The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.

Lord Byron / quote

24c. 1806 AD

None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

Lord Byron / quote