Date: 1741
"[F]ly for ever from my Sight, lest I stamp Deformity on every Limb, and make thy Body as hideous as thy Soul"
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Date: 1751
One may suffer "the poignant anguish of a bleeding heart"
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Date: 1759
"To the mind, as to the eye, it is difficult to compare with exactness objects vast in their extent, and various in their parts."
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Date: 1759
"Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired."
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Date: 1759
"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude."
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