Date: 1744
"A serious mind is the native soil of every virtue, and the single character that does true honour to mankind."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"As Love of Pleasure is ordain'd to guard / And feed our bodies, and extend our race; / The Love of Praise is planted to protect / And propagate the glories of the mind."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"The thorns shoot up! What thorns in every thought! / Why sense of better? It embitters worse."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1751
"This sentiment, rooted in the mind, is an antidote to all misfortune."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1757
"Their root strikes deeper into the mind, and springs from the essential and universal properties of human nature."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)