Date: 1679
The eyes are "False mirrors of an Heart, which deeper lies."
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Date: 1680
"Madam, your Person is Natures Essence Bottle, and your mind the Mirror of Virtue and Discretion"
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Date: November, 1682
"Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led / From cause to cause, to Nature's secret head."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1687
"For whatsoe're the mighty Men of Sense, / Those skulls of Axiome and Philosophy, / By reasons Telescope pretend t' evince, / Beyond this World we can no other see"
preview | full record— Rawlet, John (bap. 1642, d. 1686)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
Native beams of light should shine out in their "full Lustre" in children, idiots, and savages.
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
Natural "Characters engraven on the Mind" must needs be visible by themselves by their own light
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"To think often, and never retain it so much as one moment, is a very useless sort of thinking: and the Soul in such a state of thinking, does very little, if at all, excel that of a Looking-glass, which constantly receives variety of Images, or Ideas, but retains none; they disappear and vanish,...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"These simple Ideas, when offered to the mind, the Understanding can no more refuse to have, nor alter, when they are imprinted, nor blot them out, and make new ones in it self, than a mirror can refuse, alter, or obliterate the Images or Ideas, which, the Objects set before it, do therein produce."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"Which Qualities [hot, light, white, cold, sweet] are commonly thought to be the same in those Bodies, that those Ideas are in us, the one the perfect resemblance of the other, as they are in a Mirror."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"I shall not here enquire, though it may seem probable, that the Constitution of the Body does sometimes influence the Memory; since we oftentimes find a Disease quite strip the Mind of all its Ideas, and the flames of a Fever, in a few days, calcine all those Images to dust and confusion, which ...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)