Thoughts

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    In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun’s rays. The matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in advance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this auroral atmosphere.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    ... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ...
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Two thoughts were so mixed up I could not tell
    Whether of her or God he thought the most,
    But think that his mind’s eye,
    When upward turned, on one sole image fell;
    And that a slight companionable ghost ...
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)