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01c. 1855 AD

Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

James Russell Lowell / quote

02c. 1855 AD

Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'T is his at last who says it best.

James Russell Lowell / quote

03c. 1855 AD

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

James Russell Lowell / quote

04c. 1855 AD

The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below.

James Russell Lowell / quote

05c. 1855 AD

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

James Russell Lowell / quote

06c. 1855 AD

Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."

James Russell Lowell / quote

07c. 1855 AD

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.

James Russell Lowell / quote

08c. 1855 AD

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

Matthew Arnold / quote

09c. 1855 AD

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

Matthew Arnold / quote

10c. 1855 AD

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light.

Matthew Arnold / quote

11c. 1852 AD

The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

12c. 1852 AD

Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

13In print by 1905 AD

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.

Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote

14c. 530 BC

Wine is wont to show the mind of man.

Theognis / maxim

15c. 491 BC

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Æschylus / quote

16c. 451 BC

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

Sophocles / quote

17c. 445 BC

Second thoughts are ever wiser.

Euripides / quote

18c. 172 BC

Take care and say this with presence of mind.

Terence / quote

19c. 13 BC

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

Ovid / quote

20c. 13 BC

The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

Ovid / quote

21In print by 1905 AD

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

Publius Syrus / maxim

22c. 28 AD

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

Seneca / quote

23c. 51 AD

The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.

Pliny The Elder / quote

24c. 83 AD

Lamachus chid a captain for a fault; and when he had said he would do so no more, "Sir," said he, "in war there is no room for a second miscarriage." Said one to Iphicrates, "What are ye afraid of?" "Of all speeches," said he, "none is so dishonourable for a general as 'I should not have thought of it.'"

Plutarch / quote