Date: 1752
"I hope I am not guilty of Profaneness; but in Pursuance of that cheerful Chain of Thoughts with which you have inspired me this Afternoon, I was just now lost in a Reverie, and fancied myself in those blissful Mansions which we hope to enjoy hereafter."
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Date: 1752
"'The greatest Difficulty,' added the Gentleman, 'which Persons of your Turn of Mind meet with, is in finding proper Objects of their Goodness: For nothing sure can be more irksome to a generous Mind, than to discover, that it hath thrown away all its good Offices on a Soil that bears no other Fr...
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Date: [1753] 1754
"Despairing of success with you, he has assumed airs of bravery; but your name is written in large letters in his heart."
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Date: 1754
One may pursue his own predominant passion
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Date: 1754
Gratitude may raise a throne for someone in one's heart
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Date: 1754
"Can I regain him, if I conquer that not ignoble vehemence of a great mind?"
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Date: 1754
"When temptations arise, and virtue staggers, let imagination sound the final trumpet, and judgment lay hold on eternal Life"
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Date: 1754
One's judgment may be at war with her passion
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Date: 1754
One may have a hole in their heart "thro' which one may run one's head"
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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"
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