Date: 1751
"The eye, my dear, the wicked eye--has such a strict alliance with the heart--And both have such enmity to the judgment!"
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Date: 1751
Clarissa, if any "woman ever could, would have given a glorious instance of a passion conquered, or at least kept under, by Reason, and by Piety"
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Date: 1751
"If a passion can be conquered, it is a sacrifice a good child owes to indulgent parents"
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Date: 1752
Affections struggle for superiority in the mind
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Date: 1752
"Upon the whole, however, she past a miserable and sleepless Night, her gentle Mind torn and distracted with various and contending Passions, distressed with Doubts, and wandring in a kind of Twilight, which presented her only Objects of different Degrees of Horrour, and where black Despair close...
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Date: 1752
Many "kind Words" and "many kind Looks" may make an entire Conquest of the Heart
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Date: 1754
"Can I regain him, if I conquer that not ignoble vehemence of a great mind?"
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Date: 1754
One's judgment may be at war with her passion
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Date: 1754
"The man's discover'd unworthiness, and your own discretion, enabled you to conquer a passion to which you had given way, supposing it unconquerable, because you thought it would cost you pains to contend with it"
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Date: 1754
"Had Sir Charles been actually married, would his being so, have enabled a woman's reason to triumph over her passion? --If so, passion is surely conquerable"
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