Date: 1778
"A thirst for knowledge, which can never be gratified, would not have been implanted; a mind which was to be chained to the earth, would never have been bent on the skies"
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Date: 1778
"We never throw away our reason, by using it unnecessarily."
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Date: 1778
"Education, and good company are necesary to polish the mind----but can any education, or any company, convey a fine understanding, where it has not been given by nature?"
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Date: 1778
"It is by possession of this power, that the mind holds its empire----foor when this power is lost, we are said to be out of our senses--and then our acts can neither be good nor evil"
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Date: 1778
"I should have hoped that a man of his knowledge--and who has studied in the manner he [Dr. Blair] must have done--(being a professor of the Belles Lettres,) might have emancipated his mind from the shackles of system."
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Date: 1778
"We can earnestly endeavour to avoid evil, only by a uniform disposition to combat our appetites and passions."
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Date: 1778
"Unless the ruling propensity of the mind be habitually resisted, and generally with effect, our charity, and all those good dispositions which we possess by nature, will have no weight in recommending us to God."
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Date: 1829
"Death is only the removal of an immortal soul from dead matter, which many have considered merely as a clog to the soul."
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Date: 1829
"And if the man is as complete without the body, as he is without the house he resides in, the immortal soul ought to be thankful when it gets quit of the body."
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