Date: From Thursday May 18. to Saturday May 20. 1710
"By this Means, a disordered Mind, like a broken Limb, will recover its Strength by the sole Benefit of being out of Use, and lying without Motion."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: From Saturday June 3. to Tuesday June 6. 1710
"The Mind in Infancy is, methinks, like the Body in Embrio, and receives Impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by Reason, as any Mark with which a Child is born is to be taken away by any future Application."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Monday, December 3, 1711
"Among all the Diseases of the Mind, there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the Love of Flattery."
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Date: Wednesday, June 6, 1711
"Pardon me, oh Pharamond, if my Griefs give me Leave, that I lay before you, in the Anguish of a wounded Mind, that you, good as you are, are guilty of the generous Blood spilt this Day by this unhappy Hand: Oh that it had perished before that Instant!"
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Date: Monday, April 28, 1712
"This must certainly be a most charming Exercise to the Mind that is rightly turned for it."
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Date: 1713, 1734
"We are chained to a body, that is to say, our perceptions are connected with corporeal motions."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713
"The Stoical Scheme of Supplying our Wants by lopping off our Desires, is like cutting off our Feet when we want Shoes."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1727
"Old Men view best at a distance with the Eyes of their Understanding as well as with those of Nature."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1728
A peevish, pettish temper "disarms the Heart of its natural Integrity; it induces us to throw away our true Armour, our natural Courage, and cowardly to commit our selves to the vain Protection of others, while we neglect our own Defence"
preview | full record— Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746)
Date: 1732
"What! upon every subject? upon the notions you first sucked in with your milk, and which have been ever since nursed by parents, pastors, tutors, religious assemblies, books of devotion, and such methods of prepossessing men's minds."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)