MIND.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee.—Isaiah, xxvi. 3.
To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God.—Romans, viii. 6, 7.
A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.—James, i. 8.
Mylo, forbear to call him blest,
That only boasts a large estate:
Should all the treasures of the west
Meet, and conspire to make him great,—
Should a broad stream with golden sands
Through all his meadows roll,—
He’s but a wretch, with all his lands,
That wears a narrow soul.
Were I so tall as reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
I must be measured by my soul:
The mind’s the standard of the man.
Watts.
When coldness wraps this suffering clay,
Ah, whither strays the immortal mind?
It cannot die, it cannot stay,
But leaves its darken’d dust behind.
Byron.
The insate mind, but from without supplied,
Languishes on a weak imperfect food;
If sustenance more spiritual be denied,
With flame consuming on itself ’twill brood.
Sir E. Brydges.
My voice proclaims
How exquisitely the individual Mind
(And the progressive powers perhaps no less
Of the whole species,) to the External world
Is fitted:—and how exquisitely too—
Theme this but little heard of among men—
The External world is fitted to the Mind;
And the Creation, (by no lower name
Can it be called,) which they with blended might
Accomplish—this is our high argument.
Wordsworth.