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Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who read more
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi read more
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.]
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful read more
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach read more
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
