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.
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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.
Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.
Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
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.
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.
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 forehead is the gate of the mind.
[Lat., Frons est animi janua.]
The forehead is the gate of the mind.
[Lat., Frons est animi janua.]
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.
