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Date: 1742, 1777
"The heart, mean while, is empty of all enjoyment: And the mind, unsupported by its proper objects, sinks into the deepest sorrow and dejection."
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Date: 1742, 1777
"With what resources is [the mind] endowed to fill so immense a void, and supply the place of all thy bodily senses and faculties?"
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Date: 1748, 1777
"Nothing is more free than the imagination of man; and though it cannot exceed that original stock of ideas, furnished by the internal and external senses, it has unlimited power of mixing, compounding, separating, and dividing these ideas, in all the varieties of fiction and vision."
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