Dinted dimpled wimpled – his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.
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Words – I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and ideas and people to understand the full beauty of words. Your mind is not a literary mind.
We were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as ‘being in one’s right mind.
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
The state of man’s mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it.
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellence, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.