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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."

"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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"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."

"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."

"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."

"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."

"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."
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