Date: Saturday, February 29, 1752
"He retired again to his private chamber, and sought for consolation in his own mind; one thought flowed in upon another; a long succession of images seized his attention; the moments crept imperceptibly away through the gloom of pensiveness, till, having recovered his tranquillity, he lifted his...
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Date: Saturday, February 29, 1752
"It was now day, and fear was so strongly impressed on his mind, that he could sleep no more."
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Date: Tuesday, March 10, 1752
"It is not sufficient to maintain the first vigour; for excellence loses its effect upon the mind by custom, as light after a time ceases to dazzle."
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Date: February 4, 1752
"My parents, though otherwise not great philosophers, knew the force of early education, and took care that the blank of my understanding should be filled with impressions of the value of money."
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Date: 1753
"We often see that to reverse this boasted constancy is the work of but a single minute,--and then in vain their past professions recoil upon their minds;--in vain the idea of the forsaken fair haunts them in nightly visions."
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Date: 1753
Anger and contempt may be predominant passions of the mind
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Date: 1753
One may make a new conquest and gain "a heart all flaming and adoration"
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Date: 1753
"Exert then the whole force of your reason to curb the incroachments of lawless passion in your own heart"
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Date: 1753
"A young amorous heart, I think, may with some analogy be compared to tinder, as it is ready to take fire from every spark that falls"
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Date: 1753
"Though the soul, like a hermit in his cell, sits quiet in the bosom, unruffled by any tempest of its own, it suffers from the rude blasts of others faults"
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