Date: 1751

One may suffer "the poignant anguish of a bleeding heart"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1751

"The wretched doctor weltring in blood, Belmein (distracted with remorse) flying from justice, my father menacing me with the most dreadful wrath, were the sad images that rose to my tortured imagination, and never left me a moment's ease"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1751

"I never was so happy as to make any impression on your heart; you have, no doubt, reserved that glorious conquest for one more deserving than Belmein"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1751

"I am here, thought I, like a poor condemned Criminal, who knows his Execution is fixed for such a Day, nay such an Hour, and dies over and over in Imagination, and by the Torture of his Mind, till that Hour comes"

— Paltock, Robert (1697-1767)

Date: January 3, 1750-51, 1807

"He may confine their bodies; but the free soul will be out of his power, which only love and gratitude can bind."

— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)

Date: Tuesday, March 12, 1751

"Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: Saturday, March 16, 1751

"[B]ut the mind once habituated to the lusciousness of eulogy, becomes, in a short time, nice and fastidious, and, like a vitiated palate, is incessantly calling for higher gratifications."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: Saturday, April 6, 1751

"Austerity is the proper antidote to indulgence; the diseases of mind as well as body are cured by contraries, and to contraries we should readily have recourse, if we dreaded guilt as we dread pain."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: Tuesday, November 1751

"As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: Tuesday, January 8, 1751

"It is necessary to that perfection of which our present state is capable, that the mind and body should both be kept in action; that neither the faculties of the one nor of the other be suffered to grow lax or torpid for want of use; that neither health be purchased by voluntary submission to ig...

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)