Date: 1723, 1740
"The strong Impression / May break my Heart, but shall not bend my Mind."
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Date: 1723, 1740
"Our Tears and Grief will soften their hard Hearts, / Fit to receive Impression from our Words."
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Date: 1723, 1740
Love is a "glorious Sun within our Souls, / Whose Influence so much controuls; / Ev'n dull and heavy Lumps of Love, / Quicken'd by [it], more lively move"
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Date: 1723, 1740
"And if their Heads but any Substance hold, / Love ripens all that Dross into the purest Gold."
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Date: 1723, 1740
"My Sister weeping! Tho' her Reason governs, / I judge her Grief for Cassius, by my own."
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Date: 1723, 1740
"My Tongue has slipp'd, and quite deceiv'd my Heart, / That melts like Wax before your hottest Anger"
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Date: 1723, 1740
"Not the most tempting Charms of Wit, or Worth, / Most graceful Forms, or dazling Shew of Greatness, / Can make Impression on a Mind like her's"
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Date: 1727
"The first Attempt in this Philosophy is, to Clear the Mind of any Innate Ideas or Principles, and to make it a Rasa Tabula, or to Resemble a Piece of Blank Paper, without any Original Characters, or Inscriptions, Engraved upon it;"
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Date: 1727
"For, Moreover, if the Mind was a mere Rasa Tabula, if it was only a Plain Piece of Paper to Write on, what Difference could there Possibly be in Fact in One Man's Understanding, and Another's?"
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Date: 1727
"The Characters Engraven on each, would be much the same, Deriv'd from those Sensations, which are Common to all; since according to this Philosophy, what is Originally Writ upon our Minds, is from our Conversation with External Objects, and then Reflecting upon the Operations of the Faculties an...
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