Chapter METAL to MIND of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Spenser.—Fairy Queen, Book VI. Canto 9.

’Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare.—Taming of the Shrew, Act IV. Scene 3; Seneca.—Happy Life, Chap. XV.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 104.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

Proverb.—Motto of the Emperor Nerva; Riley’s Dictionary of Classical Quotations, 227.

The mind is in fault, which never escapes from itself.

Smart’s Horace.—Book I. Epi. 14.

How fleet is the glance of the mind
Compared with the speed of its flight!
The tempest itself lags behind,
And the swift-winged arrows of light.

Cowper.—Alex, Selkirk, Verse 6.

A monarch clothed with majesty and awe,
His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.

Cowper.—Truth, Line 405.

A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

Greene.—Song, “Sweet are the Thoughts,” Last Line.

My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such perfect joy therein I find
As far exceeds all earthly bliss,
That God or nature hath assign’d:
Though much I want, that most would have,
Yet still my mind forbids to crave.

Sir Edmund Dier.

[See “Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,” by Thomas Percy, Lord Bishop of Dromore, Vol. I. Page 307; and Byrd’s Psalms, Sonnets, &c. The thought is said to be from Seneca; see the verse in the Thyestes: Mens regnum bona possidet. Gifford’s Ed. of Ben Jonson’s Plays, Page 28.]

MIND.—My mind to me an empire is.

Southwell.—Look Home.

Man’s mind a mirror is.

Southwell.—Look Home.