Date: Tuesday, August 14, 1753
"But from the opposite errour, from torpid despondency, can come no advantage; it is the frost of the soul, which binds up all its powers, and congeals life in perpetual sterility."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1757
"The tossing of the sea remains after the storm; and when this remain of horror has entirely subsided, all the passion, which the accident raised, subsides along with it; and the mind returns to its usual state of indifference"
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: December 1790
"These lively conjectures are the breezes that preserve the still lake from stagnating"
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)