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Mind Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
- A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
- Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of…
- Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
- The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
- The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein…
- I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and…
- Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with…
- Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last…
- There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.
- Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture.
- Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes…
- From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas,…
- If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture…
- Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man…
- One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
- Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.
- The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally…
- There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently…
- Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue…
- Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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