Date: 1793
" [I]t is hardly to be believed that any man for the sake of some imaginary gratification to himself would wantonly injure the whole, if his mind were not first ulcerated with the impression of the injury that society by its ordinances is committing against him"
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Date: 1794
"Whereas a due exercise of the faculties of the mind strengthens and improves those faculties, whether of imagination or recollection; as the exercise of our limbs in dancing or fencing increases the strength and agility of the muscles thus employed."
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Date: 1794
"[T]he thing in which my imagination revelled the most freely, was the analysis of the private and internal operations of the mind, employing my metaphysical dissecting knife in tracing and laying bare the involutions of motive, and recording the gradually accumulating impulses."
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Date: 1798
"The original plan of Mary, respecting her residence in France, had no precise limits in the article of duration; the single purpose she had in view being that of an endeavour to heal her distempered mind."
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Date: 1799
"My heart was lightened of its wonted burthen, and I laboured to invent some harmless explication of the scene I had witnessed the preceding night."
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Date: 1799
The heart may be "lightened of its usual weight"
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Date: 1799
"The sympathy, however, had proved contagious, and the stranger turned away his face to hide his own tears."
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Date: 1799
"These images now gave birth to a third conception, which darted on my benighted understanding like an electrical flash."
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Date: 1800
The face may be an index of an honest mind
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Date: 1800
The passions may be supplied with food
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