THOUGHTS FROM WRITINGS 



WE labour on and think, and 

 carve our idols, and the pen 

 never ceases from its labour ; 

 but the lapse of the centuries has left us 

 in the same place. The doves who have 

 not laboured nor travailed in thought 

 possess the sunlight. Is not theirs the 

 preferable portion? — 'The Life of the 

 Fields': The Pigeons at the British 

 Museum. 



IF any imagine they shall find thought 

 in many books, certainly they will 

 be disappointed. Thought dwells 

 by the stream and sea, by the hill and in 

 the woodland, in the sunlight and free 

 wind, where the wild dove haunts. — 

 ' The Life of the Fields ' : The Pigeons 

 at the British Museum. 



THOSE original grains of true 

 thought were found beside the 

 stream, the sea, in the sun- 

 light, at the shady verge of woods. Let 



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