Date: 1800
"Every sense was an inlet of pleasure, because it was an avenue to knowledge; and my soul brooded over the world of ideas, and glowed with exultation at the grandeur and beauty of its own creations"
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Date: 1800
"[I]f my heart thus bounds till its mansion scarcely hold it, what must be my state tomorrow!"
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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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