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Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
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Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.
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Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
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Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
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See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
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