"The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things."

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Source : Joanna Baillie (1805). “Miscellaneous Plays. 2nd Ed. - London, Longman 1805”, p.113

Joanna Baillie

#Mind Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Want Quotes

“Of course! Jeb Bush! America is hungry for another leader from that talented family!”
“It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.”
“I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.”
“I do think I'm a character actor.”
“We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.”
“Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people.”
“We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.”
“IÂ haveÂ aÂ theoryÂ thatÂ you can make any sentence seem profoundÂ byÂ writingÂ the name of aÂ dead philosopherÂ at theÂ endÂ of it.”

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