Date: 1665
"Thus all the uncertainty, and mistakes of humane actions, proceed either from the narrowness and wandring of our Senses, from the slipperiness or delusion of our Memory, from the confinement or rashness of our Understanding, so that 'tis no wonder, that our power over natural causes and effects ...
preview | full record— Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
Date: 1665
The understanding "must examine, range, and dispose of the bank which is laid up in the Memory; but it must be sure to make distinction between the sober and well collected heap, and the extravagant Idea's, and mistaken Images, which there it may sometimes light upon."
preview | full record— Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
Date: 1666
"O truly royal! who behold the law, / And rule of beings in your Maker's mind; / And thence, like limbecs, rich ideas draw, / To fit the levelled use of humankind."
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Date: 1667
"From Sons has made you Lords of th' Earth, / And on yours stampt the Portrait of His minde."
preview | full record— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)
Date: 1667
"So are those minds that Gold admire do, / Barren, and haunted by the Devil too."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"To cast the Coit is pretty childish play. / It's sad for Coin to sling the Soul away"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"When shall these clogs of Sense and Fancy break, / That I may hear the God within me speak?"
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
" Good Conscience is the only Ark that can / Ding down the Dagons of all deeds prophane"
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Date: 1667
"Good Conscience will speak within, when all breath, / The doors are shut to ev'ry vocal call."
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Date: 1667
"But to do this always, and never be able to write a line without it, though it may be admired by some few pedants, will not pass upon those who know that wit is best conveyed to us in the most easy language; and is most to be admired when a great thought comes dressed in words so commonly receiv...
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)