George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Mind Quotes, Relief Quotes

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind.

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The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size

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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

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We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

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Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.

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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

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To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

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I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.

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The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

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Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

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Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

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But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.

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It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

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