Thoughtful Mind Quotes

• The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

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  Thomas Starr King

  Gay   Thoughtful   Men  

  Thomas Starr King (1864). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.178

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• From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth.

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  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading   Book   Thoughtful  

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

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  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational   Patriotic   Thoughtful  

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

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  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patriotic   Thoughtful   Government  

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Patriotic Addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States”

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• Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

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  David Walker

  Eye   Thoughtful   Giving  

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• The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

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  John Ruskin

  Art   Thoughtful   Color  

  1851-3 The Stones ofVenice, vol.ii, ch.5.

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• A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

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  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patriotic   Thoughtful   Patriotism  

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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