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Mind Quotes by George Washington
- I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the…
- Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble…
- We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems,…
- It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not…
- I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection ... that…
- The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our great happiness, to…
- Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.…
- When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.
- The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.
- Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers in the Craft…
- It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should be sent to…
- Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to…
- Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to…
- A bad war is fought with a good mind.
- Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
- The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest…
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- 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