Date: 1725
"The Features of every single Passion must be known; the Relation which that Passion bears to another, must be discover’d; and the Harmony and Discord which result from them must be felt."
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Date: 1725
"We have all of us different Souls, and our Souls have Affections as different from one another, as our outward Faces are in their Lineaments."
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Date: 1725
"Each Man contains a little World within himself, and every Heart is a new World."
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Date: 1725
"The under Passions may, by their various Operations, cause some Diversity in the Colour and Complexion of the Whole, but 'tis the Master-Passion which must determine the Character."
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Date: 1762
"It is accordingly observed by Longinus, in his treatise of the Sublime, that the proper time for metaphor, is when the passions are so swelled as to hurry on like a torrent."
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Date: 1762
"The mind falls with a heavy body, descends with a river, and ascends with flame and smoke."
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Date: 1762
"This vibration of the mind in passing and repassing betwixt things that are related, explains the facts above mentioned."
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Date: 1762
"The same object makes not always the same impression; because the mind, being of a limited capacity, cannot, at the same instant, give great attention to a plurality of objects."
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Date: 1762
"In the same manner, good news arriving to a man labouring under distress, occasions a vibration in his mind from the one to the other."
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Date: 1762
"This is verified by experience; from which we learn, that different passions having the same end in view, impel the mind to action with united force. The mind receives not impulses alternately from these passions, but one strong impulse from the whole in conjunction."
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