Though the finest works of the Greeks, one of Schiller's and Alfieri's, in modern times, besides several of our OLD (and best) dramatists, have been grounded on incidents of a similar cast, I therefore altered it as you perceive, and in so doing have weakened the whole, by interrupting the train of thought; and in composition I do not think SECOND thoughts are the best, though SECOND expressions may improve the first ideas.

The very thought of offering hospitality to Bertha was a joy.

My only thought in this life is the happiness of my child.

Now my thoughts were couleur de rose, and Hatherden was charming.

Written thought is to many of them an impossible conception.

But the one thought which is ever constant with him, and is peculiarly helpful to the practical man, is his recognition of the value of limitation in all our energies, and the stress he lays on the fact that only by virtue of this limitation can we grow.

Thinking is a form of vital growth.

Verily, on this view, "Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything, and everything is nought.

[Byron]; those that think must govern those that toil [Goldsmith]; thought is parent of the deed

Thinking is the power to take up life where the race has left off attainment, and to lead the race one step farther on, by a new concept or idea.

Hours of the extremest bodily and mental exhaustion, when every nerve is quivering as if laid bare, and the surface of the brain burning and whirling to agony, with the reins of control let loose on every rebellious and every senseless thought, are not the times most likely to be chosen for the purest communion with God.

[Huxley]; thought is the soul of act [R. Browning]; vivre-ce nest pas respirer

[Huxley]; thought is the soul of act [R. Browning]; vivre-ce nest pas respirer

Could I recall one!But that thought is vain, Availeth not Persuasion's sweetest tone

(3) All thought (as has been shown by Hamilton in his essay "On the Philosophy of the Unconditioned," and by his follower Mansel) is the establishment of relations, every thought involving relation, difference, and (as Spencer adds) likeness.

Faith prescribes the objects and the limitations of knowledge; everything is referred to the hereafter, thought becomes prayer.

(3) All thought (as has been shown by Hamilton in his essay "On the Philosophy of the Unconditioned," and by his follower Mansel) is the establishment of relations, every thought involving relation, difference, and (as Spencer adds) likeness.

Thinking is a bad thing, mostly, don't you agree, Ronicky?" "It sure is," replied Ronicky Doone instantly.

here was no work of Helen'sno thought, no willHelen would have died to save thee this" "So, Fidelis, do I scorn all women that do live upon this earth henceforthbut, above all, Helen the Beautiful!

One thought in every developed activity-series is a desire or thought of purpose, and all the other thoughts acquire a feeling tone from their relation of harmony or oppugnancy to this.

Priestley, on the contrary, boldly avows the materialistic and deterministic consequences of his position, holds that psychical phenomena are not merely accompanied by material motions but consist in them (thought is a function of the brain), and makes psychology, as the physics of the nerves, a part of physiology.

" The chief thought revolving in my mind during the years of 1894 and 1895 had been "The Woman's Bible."

One think was ruther stiddier 'n the rest, an' that was that I liked Bewlah more 'n I knew.

The thought of Gospel Oak and its like is the thought of imitation, of imitation falling back and becoming stereotyped, until the meaning of the thing so persistently copied has been lost and forgotten.

My latest thought on this question I gave in The Arena of April, 1894, from which I quote the following: "There is a demand just now for an amendment to the United States Constitution that shall make the laws of marriage and divorce the same in all the States of the Union.