"The enemy is always in the mind."
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"Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think."
"O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!"
"The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind"
"The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it."
"In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start."
"Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind."
"Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply."
"Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him."
"A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross."
"Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar."
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds."
"And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence."
"Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate."
"Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel."
"The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err."
"I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind."
"Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind."
"In years that bring the philosophic mind."
"Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams."