Date: 1765
"Imagination is a Ray of Divinity, the Senses contribute nothing to its Operation; it does all, has all within itself, nor can even Reason either add or diminish its Power."
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Date: December 9-11, 1766
"Fair truth shall chase th' unreal Forms away; / And Reason's piercing Beam restore the Day."
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Date: October, 1784
"HUMAN thoughts are like the planetary system, where many are fixed, and many wander, and many continue for ever unintelligible; or rather like meteors, which generally lose their substance with their lustre."
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Date: October, 1784
"The understanding is like the sun, which gives light and life to the whole intellectual world; but the memory, regarding those things only that are past, is like the moon, which is new and full and has her wane by turns."
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Date: March 31, 2009
"As smart as we are, in this sense we are all dim bulbs."
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