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"As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions."
"Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind."
"Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man."
"Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign."
"Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind."
"A man's head is his castle."
"Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times."
"The mind is the atmosphere of the soul."
"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."
"What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself."
"Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation."
"Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it."
"Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump."
"When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future."
"When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again."
"At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind."
"I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do."
"Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike."
"Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!"
"one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another"
