Icicle . Chastity is like an icicle; if it once melts, that's the last of it. {Proverb.}
Icicle . Honesty is like an icicle; if it once melts, that is the last of it. {Amer. Proverb.}
Icicle . Money is like an icicle, soon found at certain seasons, and soon melted under other circumstances. {Spurgeon.}
Idea . A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism. {Victor Hugo.}
Idea . Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot. {Thomson.}
Idea . Distance produces in idea the same effect as in real perspective. {Scott.}
Idea . Every idea must have a visible unfolding. {Victor Hugo.}
Idea . For man there is but one misfortune, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it. {Goethe.}
Idea . Genius is nothing more than the effort of the idea to assume a definite form. {Fichte.}
Idea . Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.... This idea has inspired the genius of Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, and, in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. Their writing is blood-warm. {Emerson.}
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