Date: 1760, 1850
"Yet still in fancy's painted cells / The soul-inflaming image dwells."
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Date: 1760, 1850
Friendship is "The indissoluble tie that binds, / In equal chains, two sister minds."
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Date: 1760, 1850
One may hope "to find / An easy conquest o'er a woman's mind"
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Date: 1760, 1850
"What grand ideas crowd my brain! / What images! a lofty train / In beauteous order spring"
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Date: 1760, 1850
An "anxious tender air / Proves o'er her heart the conquest won"
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Date: 1760, 1850
"Say, youth, and can'st thou keep secure / Thy heart from conquering beauty's power?"
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Date: w. c. 1762, 1850
"For love, I fear, corrupts the judge within."
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Date: 1764
Perception is "a kind of drama, wherein some things are performed behind the scenes, others are represented to the mind in different scenes, one succeeding the another"
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Date: 1764
"Such principles are parts of our constitution, no less than the power of thinking: reason can neither make nor destroy them; nor can it do any thing without them: it is like a telescope, which may help a man to see farther, who hath eyes; but without eyes, a telescope shows nothing at all."
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Date: 1764
"The fabric of the human mind is intricate and wonderful, as well as that of the structure of the human body. The faculties of the one are with no less wisdom adpated to their several ends, than the organs of the other."
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