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Mind Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put…
- Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
- Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
- The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented…
- Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock."…
- . . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
- A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb…
- A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.
- Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing…
- I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness…
- Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds…
- Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness…
- My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.
- If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in…
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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