A MISCELLANY OF THOUGHTS
1.
Miscellany
here means a mixture of various thoughts on various subjects.
2.
In
the end, thought rules the world. There may however be times when impulses and
passions are more powerful.
3.
Thought
means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense.
4.
Thought
is deeper than speech; feeling deeper than thought.
5.
It
is a miserable thing to live in suspense: it is the life of a spider.---Irish
writer and essayist Jonathan Swift (1667-1745).
6.
Sins
are like circles in the water when a stone is thrown into it; one produces
another.
7.
Riches
are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
8.
Blessings
ever wait on virtuous deeds.
9.
Books and proverbs receive their chief value
from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.
10.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy.
11.
Justice
without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny.
12.
Patience
and time do more than strength or passion.
13.
There
is no virtue like necessity. ----English poet and playwright William
Shakespeare (1564-1616).
14.
Modesty
and humility are the sobriety of the mind.
15.
To
love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
16.
Law
is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
17.
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying
glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truth.
---(Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes 1547-1616)
18.
Sorrow’s
best antidote is employment.
19.
Fashion
is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem
rather than to be.
20.
It
is not so hard to earn money, as to spend it well.
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G.R.Kanwal
20 February 2026
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