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Date: 1751

"If a passion can be conquered, it is a sacrifice a good child owes to indulgent parents"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1754

"Can I regain him, if I conquer that not ignoble vehemence of a great mind?"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1754

One's judgment may be at war with her passion

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1754

"The man's discover'd unworthiness, and your own discretion, enabled you to conquer a passion to which you had given way, supposing it unconquerable, because you thought it would cost you pains to contend with it"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1754

"Had Sir Charles been actually married, would his being so, have enabled a woman's reason to triumph over her passion? --If so, passion is surely conquerable"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1754

"She had therefore no reason to endeavour to conquer a passion not ignobly founded; and of which duty, judgment, and conscience, approved"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1754

"You will be greater than Clementina, and that is greater than the greatest, if you can conquer a passion, that over-turned her reason"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1754

"The more desirable the object, the nobler the conquest of your passion, if it is to be overcome"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1754

One may take pains to conquer "sudden gusts of passion"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1754

One may resolve "either to conquer [a] passion, or die"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.