THOROUGHNESS. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. March 10, 1746. There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done. 5369 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Pt. iii. Sec. 1, Ch. 10, n. see Action, Art, Authors, Books, Companionship, Intellect, Language, Love, Resignation, Silence, Speech, Style, Thinkers, Wisdom. THOUGHT - No thought is beautiful which is not just, and no thought can be just which is not founded on truth. 5370 Addison: The Spectator. No. 523. Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne. 5371 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Thought is parent of the deed. 5372 Carlyle Essays. Death of Goethe. (Foreign Thought once awakened does not again slumber. 5373 Thought will not work except in silence. 5374 The Hero Carlyle Sartor Resartus. Bk. iii. Ch. 3. A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it. 5375 Coleridge: Table Talk. Additional Table Talk. Thought. One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. 5376 Coleridge: Table Talk. Additional Table Talk. Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. Emerson: Conduct of Life. Fate. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. 5378 Emerson: Representative Men. Shakespeare. In solitude all great thoughts are born. 5379 Moses Harvey: Columbus. (Stewart's Literary Quarterly Magazine, January, 1869.) Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. 5380 Pt. i. Essay x. On Thought and Action. Thought is invisible nature. 5381 Heine: Scintillations. Excerpts. Miscellaneous, If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good an, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel. 5382 Matthew Henry: Commentaries. Psalm lxxviii., and Sermon on Uncleanness. To their own second and sober thoughts. 5383 Matthew Henry: Exposition, Job vi. 29. (London, 1710.) He that never thinks never can be wise. 5384 Johnson: Works. Rasselas. Ch. 17. (Oxford edition, 1825.) Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness. 5385 Johnson: Works. V. 43. Thought is always troublesome to his own approbation. (Oxford edition, 1825.) him who lives without (Oxford edition, 1825.) 5386 Johnson: Works. IX. 317. Ben Jonson: Every Man Out of His Humor. Act iii. Sc. 3. In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver. 5388 Joubert: Pensées. No. 117. (Attwell, Translator.) A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. 5389 Longfellow: Drift-Wood. Table Talk. His thoughts are like mummies, embalmed in spices and wrapped about with curious envelopments; but, within, those thoughts themselves are kings. 5390 Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. i. Ch. 5. Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best. 5391 Lowell: Among My Books. Keats. The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself. Lowell: Democracy and Other Addresses. Address, Chelsea, Mass., Dec. 22, 1885. Books and Libraries. 5392 Every thought was once a poem. 5393 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. III. Coming to the Truth. Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed. 5394 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Pt. i. Sec. 1, Ch. 2, § 5. The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression. Pt. i. Sec. 1, Ch. 2, § 5. 5395 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Thought is silence. Act iv. Sc. 1. in it. Act ii. Sc. 2. Sheridan: Pizarro. Act i. Sc. 1. The mind grows by what it feeds on. 5399 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Lessons in Life. Reproduction in Kind. Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are alternately answered. 5400 TIME Daniel Webster: Address, Charlestown, Mass., see Burdens, Christianity, Eternity, Speech, Truth. Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence. 5401 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. I. Learning. Criticism. Bacon Essays. Of Despatch. To choose time is to save time. Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed. 5403 Bulwer-Lytton: Caxtoniana. Essay xxi. On the Management of Money. O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing! 5404 Carlyle Thomas Carlyle, First Forty Years, Letter, Feb. by Froude. Vol. ii. Ch. 17. That great mystery of Time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it. 5405 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. The Hero as Divinity. The curtains of Yesterday drop down, the curtains of Tomorrow roll up; but Yesterday and To-morrow both are. 5406 Carlyle: Sartor Resartus. Supernaturalism, Natural Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable; and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undis closed. 5407 He who gains time gains everything. 5408 Colton: Lacon. Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Tancred. But dost thou love life? then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. 5409 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac. Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. 5410 Time, 5411 Hawthorne: The Marble Faun. Ch. 24. - the most independent of all things. Hazlitt: Sketches and Essays. On a Sun-Dial. Time is the most important thing in human life, - for what is joy after its departure?— and the most consolatory, — for pain, when time has fled, is no more. Time is the wheeltrack in which we roll on towards eternity, which conducts us to the Incomprehensible. There is a perfecting power connected with its progress, and this operates upon us the more beneficially when we duly estimate it, listen to its voice, and do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good in which all finite things are resolved. 5412 Wilhelm von Humboldt: Letters to a Female Friend. Vol. i. No. 38. (Catharine M. A. Couper, Trans.) Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. 5413 La Bruyère: Characters. Of the Heart. (Rowe, Translator.) Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains. 5414 Lamartine: Graziella. Pt. iv. Ch. 2. (Runnion, Look not mournfully into the past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear, and with a manly heart. 5415 Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. i. Ch. 1. Caption. Also Bk. iv. Ch. 8. What is Time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, -day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries, these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the life of the soul. 5416 -- Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. ii. Ch. 6. God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs. 5417 Lowell: My Study Windows. Abraham Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame. 5418 Lowell: My Study Windows. A Great Public Time is money. 5419 Character. Lord Lytton: Money. Act iii. Sc. 6. Time steals away without any inconvenience. 5420 Montaigne: Of Three Commerces. (Cotton, Trans.) "Time restores all things." Wrong! Time restores many things, but eternity alone restores all. 5421 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Pt. vi. viii. (Hapgood, Translator.) Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm; we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish, ourselves who consume; we are the mildew and the flame, and the soul of man is to its own work as the moth that frets when it cannot fly, and as the hidden flame that blasts where it cannot illumine. 5422 Ruskin: Political Economy of Art. Lecture ii. Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. 5423 Shakespeare: Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1. Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal. 5424 Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try. 5425 Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it. 5426 Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp. Death and Dying. Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne. 5427 Thackeray: Miscellanies. Sketches and Travels in TOBACCO. Ods me I marvel what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers. Ben Jonson: Every Man in His Humor. Act iii. Sc. 3. 5428 |
