Date: 1872
"He who gives way to violent gestures will increase his rage: he who does not control the signs of fear will experience fear in a greater degree; and he who remains passive when overwhelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering elasticity of mind."
preview | full record— Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
Date: 1874
"Earth thus I stamp thy bosom rouse the earthquake from his den"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: Date Unknown
A nose of wax is a "true symbol of the mind"
preview | full record— Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)
Date: 1785, 1881
"Brehm his own Mind survey'd, / As mortal eyes (thus finite we compare / With infinite) in smoothest mirrors gaze"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1883
"Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars / With memory of the old revolt from Awe, / He reached a middle height, and at the stars, / Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank"
preview | full record— Meredith, George (1828-1909)
Date: w. before 1641, 1883
"[H]is face was the frontispice of his mind, hee knew not how to dissemble a thought."
preview | full record— Smyth, John (1567-1640)
Date: 1888
"I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul."
preview | full record— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)
Date: 1888
"It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishments the scroll, / I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul."
preview | full record— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)
Date: 1889
"Her mind became like a machine out of work—rusty, creaking, difficult to set going."
preview | full record— Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925)
Date: 1900
"Then from this hour deep on my heart engraved / Be all my duty needful."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)