Date: November 19, 1793
"When awake many fortuitous circumstances may happen to perplex and discompose us; but when the body is laid asleep, and the mind disencumbered of its load, we think and act with additional force--nothing then obstructs our activity or retards our promised bliss."
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Date: 1795
"Thus let it stamp upon my heart a son's obedience; and to oblivion give each hostile thought!"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1796
"Does not the hope of that fill our universities with blockheads--and cram our courts full of barristers, with heads as empty as they leave their clients' pockets?"
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Date: 1796
"'Your son,' concluded he, 'will quickly put off his dirty dress—The dress hath not stained the mind—that is fair and honourable.""
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Date: 1798
"Man has been defined to be a bundle of habits; till the bundle is made up we may continually increase or diminish it."
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Date: 1798
"In making observations upon subjects which are new to us, we must be content to use our memory unassisted at first by our reason; we must treasure up the ore and rubbish together, because we cannot immediately distinguish them from each other."
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