Date: 1793
"If considerations of inferior note be apt to mislead the mind, what shall we think of this most intoxicating draught, of a condition superior to restraint, stripped of all those accidents and vicissitudes from which the morality of human beings has flowed, with no salutary check, with no intelle...
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"Every time the mind is invaded with anguish and gloom, the frame becomes disordered"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"We must sharpen our intellectual weapons; add to the stock of our knowledge; be pervaded with a sense of the magnitude of our cause; and perpetually increase that calm presence of mind and self possession which must enable us to do justice to our principles."
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Date: w. 1821, 1840
"These and corresponding conditions of being are experienced principally by those of the most delicate sensibility and the most enlarged imagination; and the state of mind produced by them is at war with every base desire"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)