"We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says."
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"Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference."
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"Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind."
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"To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone."
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"My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation."
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"All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence."
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"How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is."
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"Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream."
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"Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best."
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"I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way."
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"There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power."
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"A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation."
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"The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds."
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"No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word."
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"Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds."
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"So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit."
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"The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body."
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"The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind."
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"The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind."
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"Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation."
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