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- The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
- There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
- Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
- A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
- To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its…
- There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and…
- The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are…
- That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
- It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and…
- When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which…
- If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind;…
- Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor…
- But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment…
- The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
- Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
- In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At…
- They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of…
- A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
- What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
- To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
- As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.
- Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many…
- [W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.
- The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection…
- The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last…
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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
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