There is nothing which more denotes a great Mind, than the Abhorrence of Envy and Detraction.
I have a great Mind to be rid of my Wife, and hope, when you consider my Case, you will be of Opinion I have very just Pretensions to a Divorce.
I've a great mind to say I never will see any one who won't keep to my days.
I've a great mind to put an end to all the Latin and Greek!
Ethel wished it very much, and thought it nonsense to care whether people looked at her; and in spite of Miss Winter's seeming shocked at her proposing it, had a great mind to persist.
I have a great mind I will not; I know I do nothing but harm.
I have a great mind to advise Carvel to put her into an asylum, and have done with all this sort of thing.
In that case, I have not a great mind, as you supposed.
If I had a great mind, do you think I should look upon it as a small thing to be laughed at by you, Miss Carvel?
A great mind is an altar on a hill: should the priest descend from his altitude, To canvass offerings and worship from dwellers on the plain?
When I was shown into the drawing-room, and Mrs Stew with a curtsy went out, as if afraid to trust herself in a presence so imposing, I had a great mind to take a nip at some of the rubbish upon the table.
Hereupon I gave Bunny a nice little smack, and had a great mind to let her taste the stick which she had invoked so eagerly.
At all events they laughed like madmen, and I had a great mind to pitch a few bottles at their heads.
Really, when I hear you talk so, Oswald, I have a great mind to let you starve and thirst till you come again to your senses, or consent to do honor to reason.
To forbear replying to an unjust reproach, and overlook it with a generous, or (if possible) with an entire neglect of it, is one of the most heroic acts of a great mind.
To want little is true grandeur, and very few things are great to a great mind.
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
And so to the Duke of York, having a great mind to speak to him about Tangier; but when I came to it, his interest for my Lord Middleton is such that I dared not.
They talk that the Queene hath a great mind to alter her fashion, and to have the feet seen; which she loves mightily.
I have a great mind to," said the officer, who was one of the many who are puffed up by a little brief authority, and lose no opportunity of exercising it.
I've a great mind to slam the door in your face," returned Bridget angrily.
I have a great mind to do it," said the gentleman musingly.
I have a great mind to ask father to let me go with you," said Sinclair unexpectedly.
Yes, I really have a great mind to do so, seriously, Marian," and he rode nearer to her.
Clara's arm; "I have a great mind to say I'll never speak to you again, Clara.
But what I really think is, that I should do much better for myself and every one else, in one of the colonies; and I have a great mind to speak to my father about it.
Well, I've a great mind to write you letters myself and send them down to you here to read.
I have a great mind not to go," said I to myself after Worcester had left me.
Worcester had a great mind to have asked him to return the cigars.
I have a great mind to gallop after him, and inquire," observed young Fitzgerald.
I have a great mind to sue him in the morning myself, before Squire Doolittle, for meddling with my leaders.
I have a great mind to leave the deer on the hill, and to make the fellow send for his own carcass; but no, I will let Marmaduke tell a few bounces about it before I come out upon him.
I've a great mind to cut the whole thing and do something desperate.
Now all the fun of having it is gone and I have a great mind to send it back!
I have a great mind not to introduce you to Miss Brown just to pay you back for being so saucy.
Upon my word, young gentleman, I've a great mind to make you kiss Ferrers' shoes.
I've a great mind to kick you from Land's End to John o' Groat's house.
It ought to be indicted for a nuisance, waking people up o' mornings when they ought to be in the arms of Morpheus--I've a great mind to lie still.
I have a great mind to make you write out every word I say.
Magni animi est magna contemnere, ac mediocria malle quam nimia=--It is a sign of a great mind to despise greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Magni animi est injurias despicere=--It is the mark of a great mind to despise injuries.
Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind.
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