Great Throughts Treasury

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François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

Cause | Mind |

Edmund Burke

The march of the human mind is slow.

Mind |

Edmund Burke

A vigorous mind is as necessarily accompanied with violent passions as a great fire with great heat.

Mind |

Edmund Burke

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.

Curiosity | Mind |

Dr. Seuss, pen name for Theodore Seuss Geisel

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Mind |

Dudjom Rinpoche, fully Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche or Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje NULL

The logical mind seems interesting, but it is the seed of delusion.

Delusion | Mind |

Edmund Burke

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Mind | Power | Virtue | Virtue |

Edmund Burke

Sickness is the mother of modesty, as it puts us in mind of our mortality, and while we drive on heedlessly in the full career of worldly pomp and jollity, kindly pulls us by the ear, and brings us to a sense of our duty.

Duty | Mind | Modesty | Mother | Sense |

Dr. Seuss, pen name for Theodore Seuss Geisel

Always be who you are, and say what you feel, because people who mind don’t matter, and people who matter don’t mind.

Mind | People |

Edmund Burke

Idleness is the badge of the gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion upon which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases; for the mind is naturally active, and, if it is not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into mischief or sinks into melancholy.

Body | Business | Cause | Devil | Discipline | Idleness | Melancholy | Mind |

Earl Nightingale

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Day | Mind | Reality | Will |

François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best lights, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others’ tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

Mind |

Eric Hoffer

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

Business | Man | Mind | Worth | Business |

Eric Hoffer

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - not all of a sudden, but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

Day | Mind | Play | Time | Work |

Edward Gibbon

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Books | Mind |

English Proverbs

Who thinks to live must live to think, else mind and body lose their link.

Body | Mind |

Elbert Green Hubbard

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradict all you have said before.

Mind |

Epicurus NULL

The flesh alone endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as the present.

Future | Mind | Past | Present |

Epictetus "the Stoic" NULL

There is but one way to tranquillity of mind and happiness. Let this therefore be always ready at hand with thee, both when thou wakest early in the morning, and when thou goest late to sleep, to account no external thing thine own, but commit all these to God.

God | Mind | Tranquility |