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"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
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"If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!"

"The mind is an invisible net that can catch any event with its power of perception."

"Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness."

"You need to lose yourself and disappear in the depths of the repetitions? Find a coast and watch the repetitive waves! Soon your mind vanishes away and when your mind disappears you disappear!"

"There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions."

"Each and every words count.Each and every thoughts count."

"Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence."
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"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."

"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."

"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."

"A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius."

"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."

"We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind."

"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
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