Date: 1800
The heart may overflow "with joy not unmingled with regrets and trepidation"
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Date: 1800
"My sensibility, if not extinguished, was blunted"
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Date: 1800
The face may be an index of an honest mind
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Date: 1800
"You see, though a man, I use your privilege, and prefer knitting yarn to threshing my brain with a book or the barn-floor with a flail"
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Date: 1800
"My heart drooped and my tongue faultered, at this sight"
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Date: 1800
"Others, unemployed, were strolling to and fro, and testified to their vacancy of thought and care by humming or whistling a tune."
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Date: 1800
"Ellis was by no means hard of heart"
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Date: 1800
Thoughts may be kept in "perpetual motion"
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Date: 1800
"The excursions of my fancy had sometimes carried me beyond the bounds prescribed by my situation, but they were, nevertheless, limited to that field to which I had once some prospect of acquiring a title"
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Date: 1800
"My thoughts have ever hovered over the images of wife and children with more delight than over any other images"
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