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MIND MILITARY (See Navy. Soldiers, War)

MIND

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I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

BaconEssays. Of Atheism.


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That last infirmity of noble mind.
The Tragedy of Sib John Van Olden Barnevelt. (1622)
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 | text = <poem>All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth
—in a word, all those bodies which compose the
mighty frame of the world—have not any subsistence without a mind.
George Berkeley
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 | work = Principles of Human Knowledge.
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 | text = <poem>Measure your mind's height by the shade it
casts.
Robert Bbowning—Paracelsus. II
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 | text = The march of the human mind is slow.
Burke—Speech on the Conciliation of America.
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Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 161.


I love my neighbor as myself,
Myself like him too, by his leave,
Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf
Came I to crouch, as I conceive.
Dame Nature doubtless has designed
A man the monarch of his mind.
John Byrom—Careless Content.
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 | text = When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter,"
And proved it,—'Twas no matter what he said.
Byron—Don Juan. Canto LX. St. 1.. Allusion to a dissertation by Berkeley on Mind
and Matter, found in a note by Dr.
Hawkesworth to Swift's Letters, pub.
1769.
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 | text = <poem>Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle,
Should let itself be snuff 'd out by an article.
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 | work = Don Juan. Canto XI. St. 60.


Constant attention wears the active mind,
Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
Churchill—Epistle to Hogarth. L. 647.


Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of
food supplied for the soul of man.
Cicero—De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum. V.
19.


Frons est animi janua.
The forehead is the gate of the mind.
Ciceeo—Oratio De Provinciis Consularibus.
XI.
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Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.
The diseases of the mind are more and more
destructive than those of the body.
Cicero—Tusculanarum Disputationum. III.
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In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas
esse non potest.
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the
same state, health can not exist.
Cicero—Tusculanarum Disputationum. III.
4.
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 | text = <poem>Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
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 | work = Retirement.
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His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.
 | author = Cowper
 | work = Truth. Line 405.
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How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight,
The tempest itself lags behind,
And the swift-winged arrows of light.
 | author = Cowper
 | work = Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.


Nature's first great title—mind.
George Croly—Pericles and Aspasia.


As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind
To look out through, and his Frailty find.
Samuel Daniel—History of the Civil War.
Bk. IV. St. 84.
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Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so
awful as that of the human mind in ruins.
Scbope Davies—Letter to Thomas Raikes.
May 25, 1835.


My mynde to me a kingdome is
Such preasent joyes therein I fynde
That it excells all other blisse
That earth afforde or growes by kynde
Though muche I wante which moste would have
Yet still my mynde forbiddes to crave.
Edward Dyeb—Rawlinson MSS. 85. P.
. (In the Bodleian Library at Oxford.)
Words changed by Byrd when he set it to
music. Quoted by Ben Jonson—Every
Man out of his Humour. I. 1. Found in
Percy's Reliques. Series I. Bk. III. No.
V. And in J. Sylvesteb's Works. P. 651.


<poem>My minde to me a kingdome is,

Such perfect joy therein I finde As farre exceeds all earthly blisse That God or Nature hath assignde Though much I want that most would have Yet still my minde forbids to crave. Wm. Byrd's rendering of Dyer's verse, when he set it to music. See his Psalmen, Sonets and Songs made into Musicke. Printed by Thomas East. (No date. Later edition, 1588)


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| text = <poem>God is Mind, and God is all; hence all is Mind. 

Mary B. G. Eddy—Science and Health. Ch. XIV.

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