Date: 1697

Wine and Passion may be governable

— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)

Date: 1697

Reason may rule at last (over wine and passion?)

— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)

Date: 1697

"The Soul that awful Throne of Thought, That sacred Seat of Contemplation."

— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)

Date: 1697

"When your amazing Jealousy's my Judge, the worst of Villains."

— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

Date: 1697

"My Reason is in Health, and construes nothing ill from a distemper'd Friend."

— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

Date: 1697

"What is it then that lights the Candle again, when it is put out?"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

Date: 1697

"You compare Cogitation in a Spirit, to Motion in a Body, and so Cessation from Thought in a a Spirit, must answer to Rest in a Body"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

Date: 1697

"If we shou'd observe Pythagoras his Rule, to call our selves to an account every Evening, for the Actions and Thoughts of that Day, I believe we shou'd find many vacant spaces within the compass of a Day, which we cou'd not fill up with Thoughts."

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

Date: 1697

"Many fleeting Thoughts pass through the Soul without Observation, and leave no Trace or Idea behind them"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

Date: 1704

"Erect your schemes with as much method and skill as you please; yet, if the materials be nothing but dirt, spun out of your own entrails (the guts of modern brains), the edifice will conclude at last in a cobweb; the duration of which, like that of other spiders’ webs, may be imputed to their be...

— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)