The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes ...
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Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.
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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, ...
