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«The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion»
«The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.»
«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.»
«The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking»
Author: Phaedrus | About: Mind | Keywords: divert, diverted, diverting, diverts, return, Return to
«The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | About: Mind | Keywords: Leave It
«The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future»
Author: Joseph Conrad | About: Mind
«The mind of each man is the man himself»
«The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Mind | Keywords: operations, quickened, vigorous
«The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.»
Author: Seneca | About: Mind | Keywords: unlearns
«The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires constantly to be wound up»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Mind | Keywords: clock, constantly, wound, wound up