SOME PRECIOUS THOUGHTS
A thought is an idea. Some of its
synonyms are: notion, belief, concept, contemplation, musing, and reasoning.
Different thinkers have different
thoughts though the subject is the same. You have one thought about beauty, I
have another.
For the English poet John Keats
(1795-1831) a thing of beauty is a joy forever. Its loveliness increases, it never
passes into nothingness, but always keeps a bower quiet for us, and a restful sleep.
A dictionary defines beauty as the
quality which gives pleasure to the senses.
Like beauty, many other subjects
have a variety of interpretations according to minds of the authors that touch
them.
Given below are some precious
thoughts on different subjects.
1.
Eminence.
-- Every man ought to aim at eminence,
not by pulling others down, but by raising himself; and enjoy the pleasures of
his own superiority, whether imaginary or real, without interrupting others in
the same felicity.---English autor Samuel Johnson (1709-84).
2.
Emotion.
---All loving emotions, like plants, shoot up most rapidly in the tempestuous
atmosphere of life.---German humorist Jean Paul Richter (1763-1826).
3.
Empire.---As
a general truth nothing is more opposed to the well-being and freedom of men,
than vast empires.----French statesman Alexis Charles Henry De
Tocqueville (1805-859)
4.
Employment.—Employment
is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.---German physican
and philosopher Galen (130-200).
5.
Emptiness.---Four
things are grievously empty: a head without brains, a wit without judgment, a
heart without honesty, and a purse without money.---English bishop J.B. Earle
(1601-1665).
6.
Emulation.---Emulation
is a noble passion.----It is enterprising, but just withal.---It keeps within the terms
of honour, and makes the contest for glory just and generous; striving to
excel, not by depressing others, but by raising itself.---English poet and dramatist
Fancis Beaumont (1584-1616)
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G. R. Kanwal
24 October 2026
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