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Quotes and Quotations Index
Here are The Mind Quotes<.
Here are The Mind Quotes<.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humour.
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 1772-1834)
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Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
(William Cowper)
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Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,
We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;
Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
(Samuel Johnson on Edmund Burke)
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Nature, that fram'd us of four elements
Warring within our breasts for regiment,
Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds....
(Marlowe : Tamburlaine)
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The body is seen by the mind, but the mind is seen by what?
(Raja Rao : The Meaning of India)
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Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey.
(Japanese Saying)
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The mind is its own place and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven
(John Milton : Paradise Lost - I)
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known,
For a man by nothing is so well betrayed
As by his manners.
(Edmund Spenser : 1552-1599 : The Faerie Queen)
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Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more
epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
(Richard Steele : 1672-1729 : The Spectator)
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
(Steele : The Tatler)
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind. It takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
(Mark Twain : 1835-1910)
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Small minds discuss people.
Average minds discuss facts.
Great minds discuss ideas.
Greatest minds act in silence.
(Anonymous)