Date: 1752
"'For Heaven's sake,' cries Amelia, 'do not delay my Request any longer? What you say now greatly increases my Curiosity; and my Mind will be on the Rack till you discover your whole Meaning: for I am more and more convinced, that something of the utmost Importance was the Purport of your Messag...
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Date: 1752
"The first is, that a Mind once violently hurt grows, as it were, callous to any future Impressions of Grief; and is never capable of feeling the same Pangs a second Time."
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Date: 1752
The passions feed on the mind's delicacies
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Date: 1752
The mind may be diseased with a kind of ague fit
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Date: 1752
The mind bears a mental burthen as the body bears a physical one
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Date: 1752
"You know, my Dear, how gloomy the Prospect was Yesterday before our Eyes, how inevitable Ruin stared me in the Face; and the dreadful Idea of having entailed Beggary on my Amelia and her Posterity racked my Mind."
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Date: 1752
"By the latter I shall see whether you can keep a Secret; and if it is no otherwise material, it will be a wholesome Exercise to your Mind; for the Practice of any Virtue is a kind of mental Exercise, and serves to maintain the Health and Vigour of the Soul."
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Date: 1754
"How you wound my soul by the supposition!"
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Date: 1759
"To the mind, as to the eye, it is difficult to compare with exactness objects vast in their extent, and various in their parts."
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Date: 1759
"Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired."
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