Date: 1817, 1818
"My mind became the book through which I grew / Wise in all human wisdom"
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Date: 1817
"Not until my dream became / Like a child's legend on the tideless sand. / Which the first foam erases half, and half / Leaves legible"
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Date: 1817, 1818
"Look on your mind--it is the book of fate-- / Ah! it is dark with many a blazoned name / Of misery--all are mirrors of the same"
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Date: 1818?
"Upon his heart with Iron pen / He wrote Ye must be born again."
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Date: 1822
"Thou didst say thou knewest / A Jew, whose spirit is a chronicle / Of strange and secret and forgotten things."
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Date: 1824
"And in my wisdom are the orbs of Heaven / Written as in a record"
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Date: 1832
"The mind of a new-born infant .... so far from being, as Locke affirms, a sheet of blank paper, is ... a perfect encyclopedia, comprehending not only the newest discoveries, but all those still more valuable and wonderful inventions that will hereafter be made."
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Date: w. 1821, 1840
"But whilst the sceptic destroys gross superstitions, let him spare to deface, as some of the French writers have defaced, the eternal truths charactered upon the imaginations of men."
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