Date: 1787
"Again, when some desires retire, there are others akin to them, which grow up, and through inattention to the father's instructions, become both many and powerful, draw towards intimacies among themselves, and generate a multitude, seize the citadel or the soul of the youth, finding it evacuated...
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Date: 1811
"But the temple of human nature has two great apartments: the intellectual and the moral."
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Date: 1811
"If there is not a mutual friendship and strict alliance between these [two apartments], degradation to the whole building must be the consequence."
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Date: 1829
"And if the man is as complete without the body, as he is without the house he resides in, the immortal soul ought to be thankful when it gets quit of the body."
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