“A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it.”

—  Harold W. Percival, book Thinking and Destiny

Source: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 4 : Operation of the Law of Thought, p. 75
Context: A thought has no size in the physical sense but is vast as compared to the physical acts and objects into which it is later precipitated. The power of a thought is enormous and superior to all the successive physical acts, objects, and events that body forth its energy. A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it.

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