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    How fleet is a glance of the mind!
    Compared with the speed of its flight,
    The tempest itself lags behind,
    And the swift-winged arrows of light.

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The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.

by Unknown Found in: Mind Quotes,
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I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud
and the Alcoran, than that this read more

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud
and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a
mind.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Mind Quotes,
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

by Marcus Fabius Quintilian Found in: Mind Quotes,
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach read more

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

by Henry Ward Beecher Found in: Mind Quotes,
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

by Douglas Adams Found in: Mind Quotes,
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If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

by John Wayne Found in: Mind Quotes,
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The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much read more

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

by Albert Jay Nock Found in: Mind Quotes,
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all
those bodies which compose the mighty frame read more

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all
those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world--have
not any subsistence without a mind.

by Bishop George Berkeley Found in: Mind Quotes,
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Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.

Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.

by Samuel Butler Found in: Mind Quotes,
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