theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context
Wandering,"""[W]hen the mind is absent, and the thoughts are wandering to something else than what is passing in the place in which we are, we are often miserable""",5640,Inhabitants,"Searching ""mind"" in Liberty Fund OLL",15076,2005-08-18 00:00:00 UTC,2013-06-04 16:43:39 UTC,,"","Whilst our minds are taken up with the objects or business before us, we are commonly happy, whatever the object or business be; when the mind is absent, and the thoughts are wandering to something else than what is passing in the place in which we are, we are often miserable.
(p. 22)","Book I. Preliminary Considerations, Chapter 6. Human Happiness"
"","""But the heart, that natural seat of evil propensities, that little troublesome empire of the passions, is led to what is right by slow motions and imperceptible degrees.""",7738,Empire,ECCO-TCP,23012,2013-10-16 17:01:53 UTC,2013-10-16 17:01:53 UTC,,"","But the heart, that natural seat of evil propensities, that little troublesome empire of the passions, is led to what is right by slow motions and imperceptible degrees. It must be admonished by reproof, and allured by kindness. Its liveliest advances are frequently impeded by the obstinacy of prejudice, and its brightest promises often obscured by the tempests of passion. It is slow in its acquisition of virtue, and reluctant in its approaches to piety.
(p. 127)",Thoughts on the Cultivation of the Heart and Temper in the Education of Daughters