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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be over

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles. – Horace Walpole, letter to the Countess of Ailesbury, 1779 July 10th

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Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Don’t let it be all in your head, nor all in your body. – Terri Guillemets

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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. – Zhuangzi

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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. – Arnold Bennett

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The fog is rising. – Emily Dickinson

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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. – Leonardo da Vinci

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I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school. – Brittany Snow

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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought – two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Fate

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