Date: 1799
"Mock as you will, I cannot, like you, steel my heart against the common feelings of humanity"
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Date: 1799
"Ah, you lucky dog! you have an estate in every corner of your brain, and a pretty income at the end of every finger."
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Date: 1799
"The heart and the mind are prejudiced judges, ever at war with consistency and truth; they recoil with indignation from the smallest speck on another's conduct, yet pass with exultation over the mountain that darkens their own"
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Date: 1799
"Thou enviest the sovereignty Pizarro holds over my heart; but be assured, you never shall reign there."
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Date: 1799
"Ignorance has set her stamp upon him--his mind seared to every virtuous impression--his heart flint, and his temper moved by the slightest breath"
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Date: 1799
"A country is only a family on a larger scale; and transient, indeed, must that unanimity be, when inclination is law, and the various passions of the mind are suffer'd to run riot"
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Date: 1800
"I'm dead to pity as to fear, / My heart is cas'd with steel"
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Date: 1800
"We're dead to pity as to fear, / Our hearts are cas'd with steel"
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Date: 1800
"To pity wake, though dead to fear, / Nor case your hearts with steel."
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Date: 1800
"[I]f miseries pressed on thy brain too great for reason to support, would tend thee in the cell of madness, and even there derive more ecstasy from one kind look given in the transient intervals of sense, than all the unruffled pleasures that the world without thee can afford"
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