"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."
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"Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well."
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"Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view."
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"Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies."
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"Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see."
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"Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs."
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"Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts"
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"What you call types of mind are only mental ages."
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"Never flinch. Make up your own mind and do it."
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"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
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"The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others."
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"The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it."
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"With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him."
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"I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over."
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"Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence."
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"As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it."
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"Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum."
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"Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe."
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"Television is bubble-gum for the mind."
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"The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything."
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