Date: 1744
"A serious mind is the native soil of every virtue, and the single character that does true honour to mankind."
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Date: 1744
"As Love of Pleasure is ordain'd to guard / And feed our bodies, and extend our race; / The Love of Praise is planted to protect / And propagate the glories of the mind."
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Date: 1744
"The thorns shoot up! What thorns in every thought! / Why sense of better? It embitters worse."
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Date: 1749
"I do not doubt but your Obedience to me will make you at least put on the Appearance of Chearfulness in my Sight: But you will deceive yourself, if you think that is performing your Duty; for if you would obey me as you ought, you must try heartily to root from your Mind all Sorrow and Gloominess."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)