text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"I much condole with you on your late loss, I know how to feel for your misfortune! [ref. to death of Edgeworth's daughter Honora (1774-1790)] ... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.
(p. 201)",2009-12-14 16:24:47 UTC,"""[P]ains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again""",2005-05-04 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•Darwin to Richard Lovell Edgeworth,Contributed by Joann Kleinneiur (email).,8582,5737
"Paris, August 19, 1785. To Peter Carr.
[advice to a young man--probably just beginning college at William and Mary--on how to conduct himself morally and ethically, what to learn and read, and what other good habits to develop.]
""Give about two of them [hours] every day to exercise; for health must not be sacrificed to learning. ... Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind. ... Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man; but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal. No one has occasioned so much the degeneracy of the human body.",2009-09-14 19:42:39 UTC,"""Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind.""",2005-03-17 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2009-01-20,"","",C18 Listserv: Joel S. Berson (3/16/2005),15057,5630
"If ever you are about to say anything amiss or do anything wrong consider beforehand and you will feel something within you which will tell you it is wrong and ought not to be said or done. This is your conscience and be sure to obey it. Our Maker has given us this faithful internal monitor, and if you always obey it, you will always be prepared for the end of the world, or for a more certain event, which is death.",2011-10-20 19:53:00 UTC,"""Our Maker has given us this faithful internal monitor [the conscience], and if you always obey it, you will always be prepared for the end of the world, or for a more certain event, which is death.""",2011-10-20 19:53:00 UTC,"","",,Inhabitants,Do I hear Sterne?,Reading a newspaper article from the Chicago Record pasted into a copy of the 1853 edition of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia in UVa's Special Collections.,19279,7118