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Date: 1662, 1762
"Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered."
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Date: 1761-1762
"Coming, as most boys do, a rasa tabula to the university, and believing (his country education teaching him no better) that all human and divine knowledge was to be had there, he quickly fell into the then prevailing notions of the high and independent powers of the clergy."
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Date: 1764
"In order to guard against any dangers before hand, it would he necessary for lying-in women in some sort to quiet their senses, and to have their voluble ideas and passions as it were overloaded with fetters."
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Date: 1764
"For when the hostile army rushes in at the windows of the body, and certain battalions of perturbations have so entered the castle of the mind, that the soul is taken captive, as it were, and oppressed beyond measure, sure, by troops of affections proceeding from the senses of seeing, hearing, s...
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Date: 1765
"[F]or 'tis a known Observation, that a young Mind is like a white Sheet of Paper, on which may be inscribed the most beautiful Images, as well as the ugliest Deformities."
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Date: 1765
"Religion is exalted Reason, refin'd and sifted from the grosser Parts of it; It dwells in the upper Region of the Mind, where there are fewest Clouds or Mists to darken or offend it."
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Date: 1765
"A sick Person has usually Confidence in his Physician, credits what is told him, and uses what is prescribed; but an immoral Man seldom believes that his Mind is sick, slights his Doctor, and applies not the proper Remedies."
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Date: 1765
"A Man's House may be so fill'd with Furniture, that he shall want Room to stir; and a Man's Head may be so stuff'd with other People's Thoughts, that his own shall be stifled."
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Date: 1765
"Fancy and Wisdom seldom go together, nor are the Fruits of the same Soil or Season."
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Date: 1765
"Never make a Friend on a sudden, for though the first Affection makes the deepest Impression, yet that Love is held most permanent which dives into the Soul by soft Degrees of mutual Society, and comes to be matured by Time."
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