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You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.