Date: 1698
"You have paid Your sad Respects to Her; be not now wanting to Your selves: but 'Gird up the Loins of Your Mind', and be Ye comforted!"
preview | full record— Atterbury, Francis (1663-1732)
Date: From Thursd. Aug. 11. to Saturd. Aug. 13. 1709
"There is therefore an assiduous Care and Cultivation to be bestowed upon our Passions and Affections; for they, as they are the Excrescencies of our Souls, like our Hair and Beards, look horrid or becoming, as we cut or let 'em grow."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: From Thursd. March 16. to Saturd. March 18. 1710
"Reading is to the Mind, what Exercise is to the Body."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 1711
"It is impossible to enumerate the Evils which arise from these Arrows that fly in the dark, and I know no other Excuse that is or can be made for them, than that the Wounds they give are only Imaginary, and produce nothing more than a secret Shame or Sorrow in the Mind of the suffering Person."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Friday, June 8, 1711
"In this Case, however, I think the Air of the whole Face is much more expressive than the Lines of it: The Truth of it is, the Air is generally nothing else but the inward Disposition of the Mind made visible."
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Date: Wednesday, June 13, 1711
"The very Substance of the Soul is festered with them, the Gangrene is gone too far to be ever cured; the Inflammation will rage to all Eternity."
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Date: Friday, July 27, 1711
"Women in their Nature are much more gay and joyous than Men; whether it be that their Blood is more refined, their Fibres more delicate, and their animal Spirits more light and volatile; or whether, as some have imagined, there may not be a kind of Sex in the very Soul, I shall not pretend to de...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Monday, September 10, 1711
"If Writings are thus durable, and may pass from Age to Age throughout the whole Course of Time, how careful should an Author be of committing any thing to Print that may corrupt Posterity, and poison the Minds of Men with Vice and Error?"
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Saturday, November 17, 1711
"Discretion has large and extended Views, and, like a well-formed Eye, commands a whole Horizon: Cunning is a Kind of Short-sightedness, that discovers the minutest Objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: December 24, 1711
"It may indeed fill the Mind for a while with a giddy kind of Pleasure, but it is such a Pleasure as makes a Man restless and uneasy under it; and which does not so much satisfy the present Thirst, as it excites fresh Desires, and sets the Soul on new Enterprises."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)