"There are more defects in temperament than in the mind."
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"Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study."
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"As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing."
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"It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study."
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"Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding."
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"The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another."
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"Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our poems, but most forms of precision and economy in poetry, it seems to me, are signatures of the analytical mind."
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"Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood."
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"A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with."
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"The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back."
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"The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."
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"The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility."
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"Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson. [Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison.]"
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"Once I realized that the only thing I can actually control in this life is my own mind, how I choose to react, feel, and perceive, I felt immediately liberated."
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"The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it."
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"Nothing is so irrevocable as mind."
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"A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit."
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"The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's."
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"I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk."
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"Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!"
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