text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id "The mind of man is at first (if you will pardon the expression) like a tabula rasa, or like wax, which, while it is soft, is capable of any impression, till time has hardened it. And at length death, that grim tyrant, stops us in the midst of our career. The greatest conquerors have at last been conquered by death, which spares none, from the sceptre to the spade.",2013-11-01 15:33:30 UTC,"""The mind of man is at first (if you will pardon the expression) like a tabula rasa, or like wax, which, while it is soft, is capable of any impression, till time has hardened it.""",2005-03-27 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impressions and Writing,
•I've included twice: Wax and Tabula Rasa,"Found again reading Maclean's John Locke and English Literature, (1962), p. 33",10542,4093