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"The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little."
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"The heart has the ability to drive your reality, put into action by your thoughts and intuition."
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"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."
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"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."
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"The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind."
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"Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide."
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"There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do, our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them."
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"The mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master."
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"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."
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"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
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"Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel love and avoid loneliness. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. Every waking moment, and even in our dreams, we struggle to direct the flow of sensation, emotion, and cognition towards states of consciousness that we value."
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"Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation."
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"My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life."
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"I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences."
Hell


"The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery."
Business


"I was born at St. John's, where they lived for a short time."
Time


"Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty."
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"I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed."
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"We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us."
Work


"The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little."
Mind


"She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!"
Feelings
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