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Thoughts, Mind

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

- James Russell Lowell

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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

- James Russell Lowell

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

- James Russell Lowell

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

- James Russell Lowell

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

- James Russell Lowell

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

- James Russell Lowell

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

- James Russell Lowell

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Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.

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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

- Ayn Rand

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.

- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

- Simone Weil

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

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