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Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.
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“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.”

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King James Bible — Isaiah 26:3
Date
1611
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King James Version translation committees · from Biblical Hebrew / Aramaic / Koine Greek
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Meaning of “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose…”

Steadiness of attention is linked with steadiness of inner life, making calm partly a matter of where the mind remains fixed.

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Isaiah 26:3 in the King James Version.

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The mind is its own place.
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“The mind is its own place.”

John Milton · Paradise Lost · 1667
Voice: Poetic speaker · Satan
Meaning & context

The statement emphasizes how mental framing can alter the experience of circumstances, for good or ill.

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Paradise Lost (1667), Book I, line 254; retained legacy short extract from the fuller Satan sentence beginning ‘The mind is its own place’ and continuing into line 255. It is the same underlying passage as the longer catalog record, not a separate fifth passage.

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You can control nothing but your own mind.
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“You can control nothing but your own mind.”

Arnold Bennett · The Human Machine · 1908
Meaning & context

Bennett redirects the desire to manage other people or circumstances toward the sphere he treats as directly governable: one’s own response and attention.

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The Human Machine, discussion of mental control. The maxim belongs to Bennett’s period self-discipline philosophy and should not be read as a clinical claim that thoughts or symptoms are always voluntarily controllable.

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