text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"The more thy years, the nearer thy grave.
Youth and white paper take any impression.
(p. 24)",2011-06-28 03:27:55 UTC,"""Youth and white paper take any impression.""",2011-06-28 03:27:55 UTC,"","",,Writing,"",Searching in Google Books,18838,3326
"3. We may imprint in our Minds, and fix things in Memory, by thinking upon their Contraries or Opposites; and we may by the same means better remember things that are almost blotted out of our Imagination. For example; he that remembers an Hector, cannot forget Achilles; he than thinks upon a Goliah, will also mind a David: when we represent to our selves Sobriety or Temperance, we cannot but have a Notion of Debauchery and Intemperance. Now if that which is contrary is better known to us, it will quickly refresh the Remembrance of that which we had forgotten.
(p. 69)",2013-07-13 21:02:03 UTC,"""We may imprint in our Minds, and fix things in Memory, by thinking upon their Contraries or Opposites; and we may by the same means better remember things that are almost blotted out of our Imagination.""",2013-07-13 21:02:03 UTC,Chapter VIII,"",,Writing,"",Google Books,21726,7543