Date: September 15, 1759
"The hand has no closer correspondence with the Memory than the eye"
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Date: September 15, 1759
"No man will read with much advantage, who is not able, at pleasure, to evacuate his mind, or who brings not to his Author an intellect defecated and pure, neither turbid with care nor agitated by pleasure."
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Date: 1759
"It is with Thoughts, as it is with Words; and with both, as with Men; they may grow old, and die."
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Date: 1759
"No two faces, no two minds, are just alike; but all bear nature's evident mark of separation on them."
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Date: 1759
"Incumbered with the notions of others, and impoverished by their abundance, he conceives not the least embryo of new thought; opens not the least vista thro' the gloom of ordinary writers, into the bright walks of rare imagination, and singular design."
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Date: 1759
"To the mind, as to the eye, it is difficult to compare with exactness objects vast in their extent, and various in their parts."
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Date: 1759
"Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired."
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Date: 1759
"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude."
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Date: 1759
"Words are but Pictures, tru or False Designd / To Draw the Lines, and Features of the Minde"
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Date: 1759
"Whence Multitudes of reverend Men and Critics / Have got a kind of intellectual Rickets, / And by th'immoderate Excess of Study / Have found the sickly Head t'outgrow the Body.
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