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• Chaste as the icicle That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Coriolanus -- Act v, Sc. 3...
• Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough inside.
  -- Mrs. Osgood...
• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted.
  In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder....
• Man is a thinking being, whether he will or no; all he can do is to turn his thoughts the best way.
  -- Sir W. Temple...
• Except for our thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. -- Descarte
• Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
  -- Mrs. Barbauld (1743-1825) -- The Invitatio...
• Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,-- Therefore on him no speech!
  And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse....
• In every work of genius we recognise our rejected thoughts. -- Emerson's Observatio
• Our best thoughts come from others. Ralph Waldo Emerso