Date: 1759
"The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: September 1, 1759.
" Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away, and which new images are striving to obliterate."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1761
"[M]any, therefore, may violate that rule of right, which the hand of the Almighty has written upon the living tablets of the heart"
preview | full record— Hawkesworth, John (bap. 1720, d. 1773)
Date: 1761
"But now proceed; / Give me more names; these many I have wrote / Deep in the vengeful tablets of my heart."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1761
"Injurious woman, / Wou'd that men's thoughts were graven on their hearts!"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1762
"Had the proud exile read my heart, / He then must have appeas'd the woes I suffer'd, / He then had pardon'd, and thou might'st have sooth'd me."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1762
"Lord, with Thy love's acutest dart / Engrave Thy name upon my heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find, / Begotten from above"
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