| mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed. -- Christian Nestell Bovee |
| Author:
Bovee, Christian NestellEra:
1820 |
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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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine mind. -- Mary Baker Eddy |
| Author:
Eddy, Mary BakerEra:
1821 |
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| A great mind becomes a great fortune. -- Seneca |
| Author:
SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. -- Polybius |
| Author:
PolybiusEra:
-204 |
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| The pen is the tongue of the mind. -- Cervantes |
| Author:
CervantesEra:
1547 |
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| The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind. -- George Moore |
| Author:
Moore, GeorgeEra:
1852 |
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| The Soul is made of consciousness and mind; it is made of life and vision. It is made of the earth and the waters; it is made of air and space. It is made of light and darkness; it is made of desire and peace. It is made of anger and love; it is made of virtue and vice. It is made of all that is near; it is made of all that is afar. It is made of all. -- Upanishads |
| Author:
UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer." -- Upanishads |
| Author:
UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| The senses collect the surface facts of matter...It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. -- James L. Allen |
| Author:
Allen, James L.Era:
1849 |
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| Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. -- Immanuel Kant |
| Author:
Kant, ImmanuelEra:
1724 |
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| There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control. -- The Dhammapada |
| Author:
Dhammapada, TheEra:
-300 |
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| The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. -- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan |
| Author:
Khan, Pir Vilayat InayatEra:
1916 |
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| Age carries all things away, even the mind. -- Vergil |
| Author:
VergilEra:
-70 |
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| An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. -- Albert Camus |
| Author:
Camus, AlbertEra:
1913 |
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| The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Though one sits in meditation in a particular place, the Self in him can exercise its influence far away. Though still, it moves everywhere...The Self cannot be known by anyone who desists not from unrighteous ways, controls not his senses, stills not his mind, and practices not meditation. -- Lu Yen |
| Author:
Yen, LuEra:
800 |
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| Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author:
Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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| Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. -- Tupper |
| Author:
TupperEra:
1810 |
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| A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. -- Anacharsis |
| Author:
AnacharsisEra:
-600 |
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| Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. -- John Henry Newman |
| Author:
Newman, John HenryEra:
1801 |
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| It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. -- Edmund Spenser |
| Author:
Spenser, EdmundEra:
1552 |
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| For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow. -- Edmund Spenser |
| Author:
Spenser, EdmundEra:
1552 |
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| Perils, and misfortunes, and want, and pain, and injury, are more or less the certain lot of every man that cometh into the world. It behooveth thee, therefore, O child of calamity! early to fortify thy mind with courage and patience, that thou mayest support, with a becoming resolution, thy allotted portion of human evil. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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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. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author:
Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra:
1809 |
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| Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. -- Marcus Aurelius |
| Author:
Aurelius, MarcusEra:
121 |
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| A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. -- Francis Bacon |
| Author:
Bacon, FrancisEra:
1561 |
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| Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. -- Jacques Barzun |
| Author:
Barzun, JacquesEra:
1907 |
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| I Thy God am the Light and the mind which were before substance was divided from Spirit and darkness from Light. -- The Divine Pymander |
| Author:
Divine Pymander, TheEra:
-2500 |
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| There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. -- Thomas Paine |
| Author:
Paine, ThomasEra:
1737 |
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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. -- Robert Burton |
| Author:
Burton, RobertEra:
1576 |
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| As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| The power of Thought, the magic of the mind! -- Lord Byron |
| Author:
Byron, LordEra:
1788 |
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| What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| There was neither non-existence nor existence then; there was neither the realm of space nor the sky beyond. There was no distinguishing sign of night nor of day. That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse. Other than that there was nothing beyond. Darkness was hidden by darkness in the beginning; with no distinguishing sign, all this was water. The life force that was, was covered with emptiness, that one arose through the power of heat. Desire came upon that one in the beginning; that was the first seed of mind. -- Rig Veda |
| Author:
Veda, RigEra:
-1200 |
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| Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination. -- George Catlett Marshall |
| Author:
Marshall, George C.Era:
1880 |
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| Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. -- George Santayana |
| Author:
Santayana, GeorgeEra:
1863 |
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| If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. -- Chinese Proverb |
| Author:
Proverb, ChineseEra:
0 |
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| Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. -- Moses Ibn Ezra |
| Author:
Ezra, Moses IbnEra:
1060 |
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| The union of the Word and the mind produces that mystery which is called Life...Learn deeply of the mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. -- The Divine Pymander |
| Author:
Divine Pymander, TheEra:
-2500 |
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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. -- Charles C. Colton |
| Author:
Colton, Charles C.Era:
1780 |
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| I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. -- Samuel Butler |
| Author:
Butler, SamuelEra:
1835 |
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| To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families. -- Pythagoras |
| Author:
PythagorasEra:
-582 |
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