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  • Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

    Hurt   Men   Mad  
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.”, Library of Alexandria
  • But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.

    Believe   People   Heaven  
  • Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

    Mind   Atheism   Reform  
    Biographia Literaria ch. 1 (1817)
  • What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

    Self   Humanity   Mind  
    Samuel Richardson (1751). “Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work”, p.251
  • God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

    Evil   Soul   Mind  
  • Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.

    Mind   Trying   Weak  
  • The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.

    Strong   Mind   Body  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

    Education   Odds   Mind  
    Song: Get The Picture
  • Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

    Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam”, p.57
  • Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

    Mind   Moral   Habit  
    Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.271
  • Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

    Grace   Oracles   Reason  
    Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.335, Penguin
  • A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.

    Strong   Adversity   Moon  
  • Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence. The rewards will be abundant.

  • Anyone who thinks that God wins or loses games has to have an awfully weak mind.

  • It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

    Animal   Long   Mind  
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”
  • Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!

    Strong   Grief   Passion  
    George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.8
  • Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

    Mind   Glitter   Laziness  
    'Letters to his Son' (1774) 20 July 1749
  • Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

    Reading   People   Mind  
  • A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

    "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" edited by Henry Southgate, 1862.
  • In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

    Drinking   Sleep   Night  
    John Tillotson (1820). “Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers”, p.150
  • A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.

    Strength   Time   Long  
  • Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering.

    Strong   Mind   Suffering  
  • Weak minds think alike.

    Thinking   Mind   Weak  
  • Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind

    Astrology   Mind   Weak  
    Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.152, Vivekananda Kendra
  • A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

    Power   Stupidity   Mind  
  • Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

    Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

    Spectator 19 Nov. 1937 "The Psychology of Advertising"
  • Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

    Mind   Firsts   Weak  
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.24
  • Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

    Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.152, Vivekananda Kendra
  • Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

    Strong   Adversity   Two  
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