"Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind."
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"And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind."
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"A sound mind in a manly body."
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"As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free."
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"If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind."
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"When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess."
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"There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity."
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"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."
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"The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important."
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"I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind."
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"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness."
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"The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live."
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"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't."
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"Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind."
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"The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind."
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"If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground."
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"People respect us, they love us and they're entertained by us, so it's like when you trust somebody on that level, it's a lot easier to speak some real knowledge into their minds."
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"Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power."
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"The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
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