“One thought cannot awake without awakening others.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Ein Gedanke kann nicht erwachen, ohne andere zu wecken.
Aphorisms (1880/1893)

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Ein Gedanke kann nicht erwachen, ohne andere zu wecken.

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Austrian writer 1830–1916

Rhonda Byrne book The Secret

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“Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain,
Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain.
Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise!
Each stamps its image as the other flies!”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Samuel Rogers, in The Pleasures of Memory (1792), Part http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13586/.
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“I lie
in the lean hours awake listening
to the swell born somewhere in
the Atlantic
rising and falling, rising and
falling
wave on wave on the long shore
by the village that is without
light
and companionless. And the
thought comes
of that other being who is
awake, too,
letting our prayers break on him,
not like this for a few hours,
but for days, years, for eternity.”

R.S. Thomas (1913–2000) Welsh poet

"The Other" in The Echoes Return Slow (1988)

“To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

"Reunion in Brooklyn" http://books.google.com/books?id=uzz94pR0VQsC&q=%22To+live+without+killing+is+a+thought+which+could+electrify+the+world+if+men+were+only+capable+of+staying+awake+long+enough+to+let+the+idea+soak+in%22&pg=PA131#v=onepage, Sunday After the War (1944)