Date: 1756
"Many Things have been said, and very well undoubtedly, on the Subjection in which we should preserve our Bodies to the Government of our Understanding; but enough has not been said upon the Restraint which our bodily Necessities ought to lay on the extravagant Sublimities, and excentrick Rovings...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1757
"Whatever turns the soul inward upon itself, tends to concenter forces, and to fit it for greater and stronger flights of science."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"My heart still hovers round those scenes of former happiness with pleasure; and I find satisfaction in enjoying them at this distance, though but in imagination."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"A mind thus sunk for a while below its natural standard, is qualified for stronger flights, as those first retire who would spring forward with greater vigour"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"We are not to be astonished, says Confucius, 'that the wise walk more slowly in their road to virtue, than fools in their passage to vice; since passion drags us along, while wisdom only points out the way.'"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: November 19, 1793
"The mind, freed from her weighty companion, roams at large through the regions of fancy; and at once conceives and invents, beautifies and illustrates, amplifies and adorns."
preview | full record— Boyd, Hugh (1746-1794)