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Logan Pearsall Smith was an English author renowned for his essays and literary criticism. His unique writing style has won the admiration of readers.

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“An improper mind is a perpetual feast.”

Mind Ethics Perpetual

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.”

Mind Soul Problem Existence Forever Wind Waste Paper Refuse Fantastic Compare Hung Centre Floating Spiders Pondering Baskets Barrels Uncanny Twigs

Book:An Anthology

Source: An Anthology

“What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.”

Ifs Writing Mind Imagination Meditation Gay Wings Mood Mysterious My Imagination Moths Crimson Azure

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.”

Mind Body Age Youth Adventure Aging Old Age Triumph Birthday Growing Older

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.”

Life Mind Has Beens Literature Information Bottom Load Abyss Oblivion Vans Pouring Vacancy

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“Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.”

Mind Grows Fields Ignorance Flower Weed Toads

Book:Afterthoughts

Source: Afterthoughts

About the Author

Born: October 18, 1865
Died: March 2, 1946
Known for: Author
Quotes: 110

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A Portrait of Logan Pearsall Smith: Drawn from His Letters and Diaries, and Introduced by John RussellRelated source material

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