“And he says that the mountains are fairer
For once being held in your thought;”
East and West Poems, Part I, His Answer to "Her Letter.".
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American author and poet 1836–1902Related quotes
On Sgt. Sam Croft and Mt. Anaka, in Pt. 3, Ch. 3
The Naked and the Dead (1948)
“It is your belief that you are being held back that holds you back.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 118
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)
Variant: Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your — your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action.
Context: Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your — your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action.
Life of Agesilaus II
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
To Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.
statement by Muir as remembered by Samuel Hall Young in Alaska Days with John Muir (1915), chapter 7
1910s