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Mind Quotes by Charles Dickens
- To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.…
- ....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of…
- One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .…
- Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
- 'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal,…
- The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things…
- The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and…
- I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and…
- There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
- Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about…
- You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the…
- She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She…
- I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be…
- Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root…
- This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the…
- . . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as…
- I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having…
- We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We…
- New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
- That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
- There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious…
- Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some…
- They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle