Well, well, be it so, thou strongest thief of all,
For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine.
THISTLE
Cnicus
Up wi' the flowers o' Scotland,
The emblems o' the free,
Their guardians for a thousand years,
Their guardians still we'll be.
A foe had better brave the de'il
Within his reeky cell,
Than our thistle's purple bonnet,
Or bonny heather bell.
When on the breath of Autumn's breeze,
From pastures dry and brown,
Goes floating, like an idle thought,
The fair, white thistle-down;
O, then what joy to walk at will,
Upon the golden harvest-hill!
THORN
Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
There is a Thorn,—it looks so old,
In truth, you'd find it hard to say
How it could ever have been young,
It looks so old and gray.
Not higher than a two years child
It stands erect, this aged Thorn;
No leaves it has, no prickly points;
It is a mass of knotted joints,
A wretched thing forlorn.
It stands erect, and like a stone
With lichens is it overgrown.
THOUGHT
Upon the cunning loom of thought
We weave our fancies, so and so. T. B. Aldrich—Cloth of Gold. Prelude. </poem>
Sempre il miglior non 6 il parer primiero.
First thoughts are not always the best.
Alfieri—Don Garzia. III. 1.
| seealso = (See also Dryden)
| topic = Thought
| page = 787
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>The kings of modern thought are dumb.
Matthew Arnold—Stanzas from the Grande
Chartreuse.
Great thoughts, like great deeds, need
No trumpet.
Bailey—Festus. Sc. Home.
I'll put that in my considering cap.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = Loyal Subject
Act II. Sc. 1.
| topic = Thought
| page = 787
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 11
| text = Qui sait si Ton ne verra pas que le phosphore et l'esprit vont ensemble?
| trans = Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
| author = Henri Beyle
| cog = (Stendhal)
| work = Histoire de la Peinture en Italie.
| place = Ch. XCI. P. 209. (Ed. 1854)
| seealso = (See also Moleschott)
| topic = Thought
| page = 787
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Sow a thought and reap an act.
Quoted by G. D. Boardman.
| seealso = (See also Hall under Habit)
| topic = Thought
| page = 787
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Thought is valuable in proportion as it is
generative.
Bulwer-Lytton—Caxtoniana. Essay XIV.
The first thought is often the best.
Bishop Butler—Sermon on the Character of
Balaam. Seventh Sermon.
| seealso = (See also Dryden)
| topic = Thought
| page = 787
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>What exile from himself can flee?
To zones, though more and more remote,
Still, still pursues, where'er I be,
The blight of life—the demon Thought.
Byron—Childe Harold. To Inez. Canto I.
St. 84. L. 6.
I stood
Among them, but not of them: in a shroud
Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
Byron—Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 113.
Whatsoe'er thy birth,
Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied
forth.
Byron—Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 115.
The power of Thought,—the magic of the Mind!
| author = Byron
| work = Corsair. Canto I. St. 8.
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great
event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival
of a Thinker in the world?
Carlyle—Heroes and Hero Worship. Lecture
Thought once awakened does not again slumber.
Carlyle—Heroes and Hero Worship. Lecture
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
Cujusyis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverare. Posteriores enim
cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse
Any man may make a mistake; none but a
fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best
as the proverb says.
Cicero—Philippion. XII. 2.
| seealso = (See also Dryden)
| topic = Thought
| page = 787
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 24
| text = <poem>Old things need not be therefore true,
O brother men, nor yet the new;
| text = <poem>Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,
And yet consider it again!
