Date: 1782
"Throughout mankind, the Christian kind at least, / There dwells a consciousness in every breast."
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Date: 1782
"Hence all that is in man, pride, passion, art, / Powers of the mind , and feelings of the heart, / Insensible of Truth's almighty charms, / Starts at her first approach, and sounds to arms!"
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Date: 1782
One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way"
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Date: 1782
"Peace of mind" is a delightful guest that may make its "downy nest" in a "sad heart"
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Date: November 10, 1783
"He gives, what bankrupt Nature never can, / Whose noblest coin is light and brittle man, / Gold, purer far than Ophir ever knew, / A soul, an image of himself, and therefore true."
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Date: w. 1782-3, 1801
Love's laws may be "written in the mind"
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Date: w. 1782-3, 1801
All the mind, "in all her faculties refined," may taste "happiness complete"
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Date: 1783
"When first the orient rays of beauty move / The conscious soul, they light the lamp of love"
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Date: December 10, 1782; 1783
"Besides those minute differences in things which are frequently not observed at all, and when they are make little impression, there are in all considerable objects great characteristic distinctions, which press strongly on the senses, and therefore fix the imagination."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: December 10, 1782; 1783
"It may be remarked, that the impression which is left on our mind, even of things which are familiar to us, is seldom more than their general effect; beyond which we do not look in recognising such objects."
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