"Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant."
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"The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend."
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"Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity."
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"I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away."
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"Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before."
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"Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good."
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"Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year."
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"Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God"
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"The best gift you can give yourself is an open mind."
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"The mind is always the patsy of the heart."
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"Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind."
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"Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another."
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"Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity."
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"The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery."
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"Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor."
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"A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend."
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"We have more indolence in the mind than in the body."
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"Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind."
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"A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind."
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"As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do."
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