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"Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined."
"Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void."
"There shall be no slavery of the mind."
"And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere."
"Dating or finding someone is the last thing on my mind."
"Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis."
"Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward."
"Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended."
"Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened."
"The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith"
"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds."
"It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated."
"Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it."
"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."
"Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest."
"Each mind has its own method."
"Men are lenses through which we read our own minds."
"People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little."
"It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement"
"The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him."
