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Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
 How fleet is a glance of the mind!
 Compared with the speed of its flight,
  The tempest read more 
 How fleet is a glance of the mind!
 Compared with the speed of its flight,
  The tempest itself lags behind,
   And the swift-winged arrows of light. 
 In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can 
not exist.
 [Lat., In read more 
 In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can 
not exist.
 [Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non 
potest.] 
 Constant attention wears the active mind,
 Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.  
 Constant attention wears the active mind,
 Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind. 
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that read more
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.
A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of 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 state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of 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.