As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
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Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.
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Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incomptetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.
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... For until that God who rules all the region of the sky... Has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed..
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Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
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Little things affect little minds.
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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At a certain age some people's minds close up they live on their intellectual fat.
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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
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Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
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Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
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The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
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Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
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