248 Metaphors for thoughts

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

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

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.

But, in fact, there is little doubt that Jesus did both say and mean that marriage demanded lifelong fidelity on either side; just as He really taught that a lustful thought was adultery in the sight of God.

'Aven't thought of 'im yourself, I s'pose? Wasn't particular worth while, eh? MARY.

There is no other revelation than the thoughts of the wise, even though these thoughts, liable to error as is the lot of everything human, are often clothed in strange allegories and myths under the name of religion.

Certainly it was not Violet Oliver's fault that her face in repose took on a wistful and pathetic look, and that her dark quiet eyes, even when her thoughts were absentand her thoughts were often absentrested pensively upon you with an unconscious flattery.

This thought was more reasonablebut ...

His thoughts went groping, trying to solve some obscure problem it posed.

The thought of Alice was a perpetual annoyance to her.

"Thought is king.

Such thoughts had not, indeed, been Annie's, when wilfully she sought her fate.

Thought is the tree; feeling, the blossom thereof.

For, in short, had the doctrines St. Paul preached to Felix been the productions of his brain:had the thought of a future judgment been a chimera, whence proceeded the fears of Felix?

In the construction of a motor car from the point of view of absolute control of it at every moment, the first thought of the mechanic is an adequate brake and an efficient regulator of speed, instruments antagonistic, but necessary to work simultaneously or alternately.

* Speech is external, and visible thought is the ambassadress of the intellect.

Poor Betty now has lost all hope, Her thoughts are bent on deadly sin, A green-grown pond she just has past, And from the brink she hurries fast, 295 Lest she should drown herself therein.

The higher thoughts, I insisted, are psychic units, not compounds; but for all that, they may know together as a collective multitude the very same objects which under other conditions are known separately by as many simple thoughts.

With Parmenides the main thought was the notion of being.

Thought is the power by which we make it available for our own better living, and the future life of the race.

You see, while Sonny's thoughts is purty far-reachin' in some ways, he's received his education so sort o' hit an' miss thet the things he knows ain't to say catalogued in his mind, an' while he'll know one fac', maybe he won't be able to recall another thet seems to belong hand in hand with it.

If, therefore, solitary contemplative thought is a legitimate end in itself; if it is that ludus, or play of the soul, which is the highest occupation of man, a share in the same honour must be allowed to its accompanying embodiment; to the music which delights no ear but the performer's; to poetry, to painting, to sculpture done for the joy of doing, and without reference to the good of others communicating in that joy.

His thoughts were all centred round Markovitch.

Her second thought was a perplexed instinct of the truth: "I wonder if he can be afraid to have his mother see him with me?"

Our very thoughts are a menace.

248 Metaphors for  thoughts