Date: 1682
"Fancy is but the Feather of the Pen; / Reason is that substantial useful part, / Which gains the Head, while t'other wins the Heart."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1683
"Many a Lye, many a Fable, / Is engrav'd on the Souls Razed Table."
preview | full record— Dixon, Robert (1614/15-1688).
Date: 1691
"So innocent is the Soul of Kainophilus, so like fair white Paper, wherein you may presently see the least blot or speck of dirt that happens to fall upon it."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"Who has so many English Dictionaries in his Study, and another in his Head bigger than all together (and yet there's still room to spare both for Brains and Projects) Does not he?--nay--now you ruffle his smooth Soul, alter his fair Body, and discompose him all over."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1698, 1751
"There is a natural and indelible Sence of Deity, and consequently of Religion, in the Mind of Man."
preview | full record— Whichcote, Benjamin (1609-1683)
Date: 1699
"Better the Mind no Notions had retain'd, / But still a fair unwritten blank remain'd."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1699
"Reason has little now to do but prove / That some most perfect Being rules above, / And this by little Inference we find: / 'Tis plain; 'tis bright, 'tis written on the Mind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1700
"Better the Mind no Notions had retain'd, / But still a fair Unwritten Blank remain'd; / For now, who Truth from Falshood wou'd discern; / must first disrobe the Mind, and all Unlearn."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)