Date: 1687, 1691
"And though it may seem difficult to be a Saint, in passing ones days in a Prophane Place, yet think not my Piety grows luke-warm, or my Friendship diminished; seeing I have made a Mosque of my Heart, where Friends are ever present."
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Date: 1687, 1691
"Engrave these Words in thy Heart: Love ever what is honest, and hate always what is contrary to it."
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Date: 1687, 1691
"Suffer me, my dear Dgnet, to tell thee, that never any Creature made such deep Impressions in the Heart of a Man, as this charming Greek did in mine."
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Date: 1687, 1691
"Consider, Dear Oglou, what past then in my Heart, and what a War I was to sustain."
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Date: 1687, 1691
"I embrace thee, and cordially kiss thee, with the Lips of my Soul, if a man may so express himself."
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Date: 1687, 1691
"Altho' he be but a Carpenter he knows better than thee, to form the Mind; he can teach thee how to polish and square thy Soul, as he polishes a piece of Oak, though never so hard and knotty."
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Date: 1687, 1691
"Let me then counsel thee, to watch over thy Conscience, as the Parisians do over their Shops, to prevent Violences."
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Date: 1693
"Though you may imagine she had no mean ones of her own, since (being but a private Gentlewoman) she could by their help alone make so sudden a Conquest over the Heart of a Prince, who had certainly (in so many Courts as he had been in) seen very agreeable Faces, set off with the additional Splen...
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Date: 1723
"Neither cou'd our Spy, considering his Education in the Mahometan Religion, take a properer Method, in my Opinion, to disengage himself from the Legends of the Nursery, and Fables of the Schools, (as a great man calls our Infant Idea's of things) than to follow the Counsel of his beloved des Car...
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Date: 1723
"Having thus cleaned and polish'd the Soul, it becomes a pure Tabula Rasa, fit for the best or worst Impressions."
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