"The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal."
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"According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind."
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"What ignorance there is in human minds."
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"The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]"
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"And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]"
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"I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds."
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"Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind."
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"You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here—and the people who worshiped them were here—because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will."
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"I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death."
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"Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages."
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"All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality."
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"There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires."
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"The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it..."
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"What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day."
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"It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind."
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"The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him. It is his work itself that, by fertilising the rare minds capable of understanding it, will make them increase and multiply."
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"I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated on silke clothe. Ye flame putteth me in mind of sheet lightning on a small-how very small-scale."
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"It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure."
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"Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation."
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"The Ill-directed mind can do to you even worse"
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