Date: 1707
The mind may be "soak'd in the bottom of the Belly" of one's Ignorance so that he needs the syrup of understanding and knowledge "to liquify the Matter" of his thoughts.
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Date: Wednesday, June 18, 1712
The Passions "are as necessary to the Health of the Mind, as the Circulation of the animal Spirits is to the Health of the Body; they keep it in Life, and Strength, and Vigour; nor is it possible for the Mind to perform its Offices without their Assistance"
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Date: Thursday, September 4, 1755
"No; let me consider this room [a library] as the great charnel-house of human reason, where darkness and corruption dwell."
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Date: Thursday, December 25, 1755
"The mind as well as the stomach must have food fitted and prepared to it's taste and humour, or it will reject and loath 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
"Youth is a continual Drunkenness; 'tis the Fever of Reason."
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Date: 1765
"The Defects of the Mind, like those of the Face, grow worse as we grow old."
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Date: 1765
"Use makes every Posture familiar to the Body, and every Opinion to the Mind."
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Date: 1765
"A good Grace is to the Body what good Sense is to the Mind."
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Date: 1765
"Education is to the Mind what Cleanliness is to the Body; the Beauties of the one, as well as the other, are blemish'd, if not totally lost by Neglect."
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