Stop doing anything; stop thinking about it.

After a time--say early in winter--we can recommence operations with the Artesian ray; that is, if we think well to do so.

You should stop this and take up something else.
You have several enterprises which are very important and ought to be carried on.

Take up one of them, and think no more for a few months of the nothingness which is fourteen miles below us." It was not difficult for Roland Clewe to convince himself that this was very good advice.

He resolved to shut up his lens-house entirely for a time, and think no more of the great work he had done within it, but apply himself to something which he had long neglected, and which would be a distraction and a recreation to his disappointed mind..