Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"FORTUNE has made me the slave of another, but nature and inclination render me entirely subservient to you; a tyrant commands my body, but you are master of my heart."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"You would fondly persuade me that my former lessons still influence your conduct, and yet your mind seems not less enslaved than your body."
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Date: 1774
"While awake, and in health, this busy principle [the imagination] cannot much delude us: it may build castles in the air, and raise a thousand phantoms before us; but we have every one of the senses alive, to bear testimony to its falsehood."
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Date: 1774
"Reason, therefore, at once gives judgment upon the cause; and the vagrant intruder, imagination, is imprisoned, or banished from the mind."
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Date: 1775
"Coriolanus has here carried his sternness, and the strained principles of stoical pride, whose throne is only in the mind, as far as they could go; and now great Nature, whose more sovereign seat of empire is in the heart, takes her turn to triumph; for upon the joint prayers, tears, and intreat...
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Date: 1776
"he more approaching to the testimony of our senses every philosophical solution is, the more perhaps is it conformable to nature."
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