Date: w. c. 90, trans. 1611
"And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry."
preview | full record— Matthew the Evangelist
Date: 1611
"Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour."
preview | full record— John the Evangelist (d. 101)
Date: w. c. 54-8, trans. 1611
"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
preview | full record— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)
Date: 1682
"There is not so Disproportionate a Mixture in any Creature, as that is in Man, of Soul and Body ... But, a Good Sword is never the worse for an ill Scabbard."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1682
"Our Passions are nothing else but certain Disallowable Motions of the Mind; Sudden, and Eager; which, by Frequency, and Neglect, turn to a Disease; as a Distillation brings us first to a Cough, and then to a Phthisick."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1682
"It may be some Question, whether such a Man goes to Heaven, or Heaven comes to Him: For a good Man is Influenc'd, by God himself; and has a kind of Divinity within him."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1685
Eternal troubles may haunt an anxious mind
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1685
"Sure he, who first the passage tried, / In hardened oak his heart did hide, / And ribs of iron armed his side;"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700); Horace (65 B.C. - 8 B.C.)
Date: 1685
"These bugbears of the mind, this inward hell, / No rays of outward sunshine can dispel; / But nature and right reason must display / Their beams abroad, and bring the darksome soul to day."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1686, 1712
"See how my melting Passions hast and run, / Like Virgin-wax before the scorching Sun!"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)