theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context "","""Cultivated ground has few weeds; a mind occupied by lawful business, has little room for useless regret.""",7702,"","Searching ""mind"" in Google Books",22935,2013-10-12 04:26:45 UTC,2013-10-12 04:26:45 UTC,,"","I do not exhort you to reason yourself into tranquillity. We must first pray, and then labour; first implore the blessing of God, and those means which he puts into our hands. Cultivated ground has few weeds; a mind occupied by lawful business, has little room for useless regret.
(p 192) ","Letter CCLVII. To Mrs. Thrale (April 5, 1781) "