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"Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on."
"In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances."
"Credit is money of the mind."
"You see, my mind takes me far, but my heart dreams of return."
"In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also."
"The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them"
"Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed."
"Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for your self or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, never communicate, as from yourself, or anyone else, a sentiment of the like nature."
"All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion."
"What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words."
"I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me."
"Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of."
"There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind"
"The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body."
"The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him."
"Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer."
"The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind."
"Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind."
"I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters."
"When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it."
