Date: 1759
"The violent emotions which at that time agitate us, discolour our views of things, even when we are endeavouring to place ourselves in the situation of another, and to regard the objects that interest us, in the light which they will naturally appear to him. The fury of our own passions constant...
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Date: 1759
"The abstinence from pleasure, becomes less necessary, and the mind is more at liberty to unbend itself, and to indulge its natural inclinations in all those particular respects."
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Date: 1759
"The consciousness, or even the suspicion of having done wrong, is a load upon every mind, and is accompanied with anxiety and terror in all those who are not hardened by long habits of iniquity."
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Date: 1759
"We are so nice in this respect that even a rape dishonours, and the innocence of the mind cannot, in our imagination, wash out the pollution of the body."
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Date: 1759
Woes may haunt the mind (but the Gods may give "cruel Phantoms to the Wind"
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Date: 1759
"How amiable does he appear to be, whose sympathetic heart seems to re-echo all the sentiments of those with whom he converses, who grieves for their calamities, who re|sents their injuries, and who rejoices at their good fortune!"
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Date: 1759
"Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind."
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Date: 1759
"There is, in the very feeling of those passions, something harsh, jarring, and convulsive, something that tears and distracts the breast, and is altogether destructive of that composure and tranquillity of mind which is so necessary to happiness, and which is best promoted by the contrary passio...
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Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
"Mingled considerations" may produce a "ferment in the oeconomy" of the mind
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Date: 1762
"Accordingly, where the object is dangerous, or appears so, the sudden alarm it gives, without preparation, is apt totally to unhinge the mind, and for a moment to suspend all the faculties, even thought itself."
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