A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
—Publius Syrus
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Sunday, June 02, 2024
Post #3232
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Sunday, April 14, 2024
Post #3225
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo
Sunday, February 13, 2022
Friday, February 05, 2016
Post #2005
Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Thursday, June 05, 2014
Post #1566
In matters of conscience first thoughts are best; in matters of prudence last thoughts are best.
—Robert Hall
Friday, March 28, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Post #1477
His bold brow bears but the scars of the mind, the thoughts of years, not their decrepitude.
—Lord Byron
—Lord Byron
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Post #1448
Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self culture.
—Samuel Smiles
—Samuel Smiles
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Post #1323
He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own will be soon reduced from mere barrenness to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before repeated.
—Sir Joshua Reynolds
—Sir Joshua Reynolds
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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