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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.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much read more
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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.
His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.
His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.
I love my neighbor as myself,
Myself like him too, by his leave,
Nor to his pleasure, read more
I love my neighbor as myself,
Myself like him too, by his leave,
Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf
Came I to crouch, as I conceive.
Dame Nature doubtless has designed
A man the monarch of his mind.
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores read more
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]
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.]