Date: Monday, June 22. 1724
"Reading the Salutary Maxims of Wise Men, with Attention, digesting them by Meditation, and imprinting them on the Memory, by frequent Recollection, is a Mind-Diet or Regimen, which will, in a short Time, restore Health to a decayed Constitution, and add incredible Vigour, to a Weak and Languishi...
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Date: Monday, June 22. 1724
"Why should it not be the Care of profess'd Visiters, not to contract ill Habits which are always very catching, and fill the Mind, with Spots and Blemishes?"
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Date: Monday, July 20. 1724.
"When Souls of a superior Form, look Abroad, and discover among their honest Inferiors, Minds capable of the finest Impressions, and only in Danger of being render'd barren by Poverty, Ignorance, and Injuries."
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Date: Monday, August 24. 1724
"There is more Harmony, in Love, than in Musick: A Harmony! like that which the old Philosophers imputed to the Spheres! Only Two Spheres are acted; by one, and the same, Intelligence. For the Strings of Two Hearts sympathize, like those of Two Lutes, with correspondent Trepidations."
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Date: Monday, August 24. 1724
"There is a Dropsy, in his Mind, and his Thirst augments, with drinking."
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Date: Monday, August 24. 1724
"Hence, that exquisite Expansion! That Liquefaction, of the Heart!"
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Date: Monday, August 24. 1724
"Vast Sea of Ecstacy, that drowns the Mind! / That fierce Transfusion of exchanging Hearts! / That gliding Glimpse of Heav'n, in pulsive Starts? / That veiny Rush! That warm, tumultuous, Roll! / That Fire that kindles Bodies into Soul!"
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Date: Monday, August 24. 1724
"Like Divinities quitting their Shrines, they disrobe themselves of their Bodies; and intermingle their meeting Minds, as we see Two Lights incorporate.--Their Souls glide out, from their Eyes, to snatch Embraces, at a Distance; and return, inrich'd, with the fancy'd Treasure."
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Date: Monday, July 13, 1724
"This comes to acquaint you, That my dear Spouse is taken sick, of a sudden, and stands in need, to the utmost Degree, of that Experience in Mind-Midwifery, which you gave out Bills about, in your XXVIIth Paper."
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Date: Monday, July 13, 1724
"Oh, Jealousy!--All other Storms are Calms / To Thee!--Thou Conflagration of the Soul!"
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