Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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