No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous li

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. – Henry Van Dyke

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…the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it… – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. – Will Durant

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