"In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at……" — Donald G. Mitchell
"In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart."
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14 Quotes by Donald G. Mitchell
Donald G. Mitchell has 14 quotes on this site.
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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
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The future is wider than vision, and has no end.
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There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
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I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the…
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You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
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Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and…
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Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like…
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The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world…
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I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at…
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Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of…
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I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping…
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No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was…
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself,…
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one…
— Theodor Adorno
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Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from…
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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make…
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As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.
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Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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