"When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles."
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"Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent."
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"Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend."
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"To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example."
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"Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use."
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"It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession."
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"He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind."
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"There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination."
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"They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town."
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"In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At this time the task of the news-writer is easy; they have nothing to do but to tell that a battle is expected, and afterwards that a battle has been fought, in which we and our friends, whether conquering or conquered, did all, and our enemies did nothing."
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"There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation."
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"To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities."
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"I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get a habit of having his mind to start promptly; it is so much more difficult to improve in speed than in accuracy."
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"Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls."
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"It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age."
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"But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit."
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"A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind."
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"The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind."
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"I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible."
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"It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly."
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