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Date: 1814
"Instruction is the food of the mind; it is like the dew and the rain and the rich soil."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: March, 1826
"And both these effects are of equal use to human life; for the mind of man is like the sea, which is neither agreeable to the beholder nor the voyager, in a calm or in a storm, but is so to both when a little agitated by gentle gales; and so the mind, when moved by soft and easy passions or affe...
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1831
"There are conceptions of the mind, that come forth like the coruscations of lightning."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
