Date: 1710, 1734
Bodies are "barely passive ideas in the mind", and the mind is "more distant and heterogenous from them, than light is from darkness"
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Date: From Saturd. March 11. to Tuesd. March 14. 1710
"It was then very pleasant to look into the Hearts of the whole Company; for the Balls of Sight are so form'd, that one Man's Eyes are Spectacles to another to read his Heart with."
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Date: Friday, October 26, 1711
"A Man, they say, wears the Picture of his Mind in his Countenance; and one Man's Eyes are Spectacles to his who looks at him to read his Heart."
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Date: 1713, 1734
"I have been a long time distrusting my senses; methought I saw things by a dim light, and through false glasses."
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Date: 1713, 1734
"I have been a long time distrusting my Senses; methought I saw things by a dim Light, and thro false Glasses. Now, the Glasses are removed, and a new Light breaks in upon my Understanding."
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