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I scarcely need tell you, Clifton, that though you have resided but little with me, I feel all the fond affection of a parent; that I am earnestly desirous to hear of your happiness, and to promote it; and that no pleasure which the world could afford to me, personally, would equal that of seeing you become a good and great man. You have studied; you have travelled; you have read both men and books; every advantage which the most anxious desire to form your mind could-procure has been yours. I own that a mother's fondness forms great expectations of you; which, when you read this, be your faculties strong or weak, you will very probably say you are capable of more than fulfilling. The feeble, hearing their worth or talents questioned, are too apt to swell and assume; and I have heard it said that the strong are too intimately acquainted with themselves to harbour doubt. I believe it ought to be so. I believe it to be better that we should act boldly, and bring full conviction upon ourselves when mistaken, than that a timid spirit should render us too cautious to do either good or harm. I would not preach; neither indeed at present could I. A thousand ideas seemed crowding upon my mind; but they have expelled each other as quickly as they came, and I scarcely know what to add. My head-achs disqualify me for long or consistent thinking; and nothing I believe but habit keeps me from being half an idiot.
(I.xvii, pp. 199-201)",2014-03-13 02:55:32 UTC,"""A thousand ideas seemed crowding upon my mind; but they have expelled each other as quickly as they came, and I scarcely know what to add.""",2014-03-13 02:55:32 UTC,"VOL 1, Letter XVII","",,Inhabitants,"",ECCO-TCP,23693,7853
"I have just risen from a conversation which has made a deep impression on my mind. It was during breakfast. I know not whether reflecting on it will appease, or increase, the sensations which the behaviour of this brother of Louisa hourly exacerbates. But I will calm that irritability which would dwell on him, and nothing else, that I may repeat what has just happened.
(II.xx, p. 130)",2014-03-13 02:56:21 UTC,"""I have just risen from a conversation which has made a deep impression on my mind.""",2014-03-13 02:56:21 UTC,"Vol. 2, Letter XX","",,Impressions,"",ECCO-TCP,23694,7853
"My passions must be, ought to be, and therefore shall be, under my control; and, being conscious of the purity of my own intentions, I have never thought that the emanations of mind ought to be shackled by the dread of their being misinterpreted. It is not only cowardly, but in my opinion pernicious.
(II.xxxv, p. 180)",2014-03-13 02:57:20 UTC,"""My passions must be, ought to be, and therefore shall be, under my control; and, being conscious of the purity of my own intentions, I have never thought that the emanations of mind ought to be shackled by the dread of their being misinterpreted.""",2014-03-13 02:57:20 UTC,"Vol. 2, Letter XXXV","",,Fetters,"",ECCO-TCP,23695,7853
"I must steel my heart, Fairfax, when I go to the encounter; must recapitulate all my wrongs. I have them noted down severally as they occurred! I
need but read to rage! What do I talk?—Read?—Can I forget them? No; night nor day! They are my familiars. They wake with me, sleep with me, walk with me, ride with me, glower with me, curse with me—but never smile with me. They are become my dearest intimates. I cherish and hug them to my heart! Their biting is my only pleasure!
(VI.cvii, pp. 139-140)",2014-03-13 02:58:29 UTC,"""I must steel my heart, Fairfax, when I go to the encounter; must recapitulate all my wrongs.""",2014-03-13 02:58:29 UTC,"Vol. 6, Letter CVII.","",,Metal,"","Searching ""steel"" and ""heart"" in ECCO-TCP",23696,7853
"No thoughts are so tragical, no suspicions so horrid as not to be justified, by deductions and appearances which are but too probable. Yet I will not sink under difficulties, nor be appalled at the sight of danger; be it death, or what else it may. That I am in a state of jeopardy my seizure and imprisonment prove. That Frank is still in greater peril, if still in existence, I have just cause to conclude. There were pistols fired, and one after he leaped the hedge; I know not at whom directed, nor what its fate!—I would if possible ward off apprehension. I know it to be folly, and I will endeavour to steel my heart against this as well as other mistakes. If he be dead, or if he be to die, grief will not revive or make him invulnerable. His own virtue must preserve him, or nothing can; and in that I will confide.
(VI.cxiv, pp. 207-8)",2014-03-13 02:59:20 UTC,"""I know it to be folly, and I will endeavour to steel my heart against this as well as other mistakes.""",2014-03-13 02:59:20 UTC,"Vol. 6, Letter CXIV","",,Metal,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""steel"" in ECCO-TCP",23697,7853