Famous quotes containing the word thoughts:
“The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts. The one esteems nature as rooted and fast; the other, as fluid, and impresses his being thereon.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Two thoughts were so mixed up I could not tell
Whether of her or God he thought the most,
But think that his minds eye,
When upward turned, on one sole image fell;
And that a slight companionable ghost ...”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Some fluctuating notions concerning repentance, virtue, honor, morality ... hovered around Lady Dellwyns thoughts but were too wavering to bring her to any fixed determination. She became a constant attendant from one public place to another, where she met with many mortifications. But yet even these were not quite so dreadful to her as to retire and be subjected to her own company alone.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)