"Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act."
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"I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work."
"Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste."
"Dreams are the children of idled minds."
"Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips."
"Men have marble, women waxen, minds."
"I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so."
"It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced."
"We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind."
"Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed."
"Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich"
"I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good."
"Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)"
"The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see."
"Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things."
"By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm."
"A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!"
"O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything."
"Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive."
"To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye."