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J. Beaumont

Gifts are the greatest usury, because a two-fold retribution is an urged effect that a noble mind prompts us to; and it is said we pay the most for what is given us.

Mind | Wisdom |

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Zachary T. Bercovitz

To get the body in tone, get the mind in tune.

Body | Mind | Wisdom |

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John Marshall Barker

Only an incompetent mind is content to express itself incompetently.

Mind | Wisdom |

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Arnold Bennett, fully Enoch Thomas Arnold Bennett

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Mind | Nothing | Sacred | Wisdom |

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James Beattie

To think everything disputable is a proof of a weak mind and a captious temper.

Mind | Temper | Wisdom | Think |

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Srully Blotnick

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.

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Andrew Brock, fully Andrew Clutton Brock

The universe is to be valued because there is truth in it and beauty in it; and we live to discover the truth and the beauty no less than to do what is right. Indeed, we can not attain to that state of mind in which we shall naturally do what is right unless we are aware of the truth and the beauty of the universe.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

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John Christian Bovee

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

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Francis Bowen

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind in a sound body.

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Francis Scott Bradford

Man, though chained to earth, looks across time and space toward an unknown perfection which he may never reach but will forever seek.

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature - takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, vis.: the mind and soul of man.