"Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer."
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"A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature."
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"Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been."
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"What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party."
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"still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?"
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"Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit."
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"The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial."
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"My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally."
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"Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.""
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"Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present."
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"Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it."
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"It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head."
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"My music has a little hint of down south but I don't have a down south accent. I guess it's just the beat selection that puts me in a down south mind frame."
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"Now is history as fast as the mind remembers."
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"The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly."
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"First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!"
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"There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil."
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"Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend."
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"The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action."
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"With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart."
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