A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
Each mind has its own method.
Emeeson—Essays. Intellect.
Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen,
Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.
A mind, once formed, is never suited after,
One yet in growth will ever grateful be.
Goethe—Faust. Vorspiel auf dem Theater.
L. 150.
Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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| text = A noble mind disdains to hide his head,
And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.
Robert Greene—Alphonso, King of Arragon.
Act I.
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this,
that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and
retains the longest, are black ones.
J. C. and A. W. Hare—Guesses at Truth.
Lumen siecum optima anima.
The most perfect mind is a dry light.
The "obscure saying" of Heraclitus, quoted
by Bacon, who explains it as a mind not
"steeped and infused in the humors of the
affections."
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| text = Whose little body lodged a mighty mind.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. V. L. 999
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A faultless body and a blameless mind.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. III. L. 138
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The glory of a firm capacious mind.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. IV. L. 262. Pope's
trans,
And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. XIII. L. 353
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Sperat infestis, metuit secundis
Alteram sortem, bene preparatum
Pectus.
A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and
fears in prosperity.
Horace—Carmina. II. 10. 13.
Qua} loedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.
If anything affects your eye, you hasten to
have it removed ; if anything affects your mind,
you postpone the cure for a year.
Horace—Epistles. I. 238.
Acclinis falsis animus meliora rccusat.
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
Horace—Satires. II. 2. 6.
i 5 Quin corpus onustum
Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.
The body loaded by the excess of yesterday,
depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground
this particle of divine breath.
Horace—Satires. II. 2. 77.
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind
that can embrace equally great things and small.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Boswell's Life of Johnson.
(1778)
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| text = <poem>What is mind? No matter. What is matter?
Never mind.
T. H. Key, once Head Master of University
School—On the authority of F. J. FcrniVALL -
| seealso = (See also Byron)
Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower,
Watching what had come upon Mankind,
Showed the Man the Glory and the Power
And bade him shape the Kingdom to his mind.
That a man's mind is wont to tell him more
Than Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower
Kipling—Dedication to Seven Watchmen.
La gravity est un mystere du corps invents
pour cacher les deiauts de l'esprit.
Gravity is a mystery of the body invented to
conceal the defects of the mind.
La Rochefoucauld—Maximes. 257.
Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to
form our judgment of the true nature of the
human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the
most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the
sentiments and fervent desires of the best and
wisest of the species.
Archbishop Leighton—Theological Lectures.
No. 5. Of the Immortality of the Soul.
Stern men with empires in their brains.
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| work = The Biglow Papers. Second Series.
No. 2.
O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!
How wretched are the minds of men, and
how blind their understandings.
Lucretius—De Rerum Nalura. n. 14.
Cum corpore ut una
Crescere sentimus pariterque senescere mentem.
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
Lucretius—De Rerum Natura. III. 446.
The conformation of his mind was such, that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
Rationi nulla resistunt.
Claustra nee immensae moles, ceduntque recessus:
Omnia succumbunt, ipsum est penetrabile coelum.
No barriers, no masses of matter, however enormous, can withstand the powers of the mind the remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb, the very heaven itself is laid open.
