Date: Saturday, November 3, 1750
"The philosophers having found an easy victory over those desires which we produce in ourselves, and which terminate in some imaginary state of happiness unknown and unattainable, proceeded to make further inroads upon the heart, and attacked at last our senses and our instincts."
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Date: 1751
Beauty may "take the senses as it were by surprise; but the impression soon wears off, and the captivated heart regains its former liberty"
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Date: 1751
"'Yes, indeed,' added miss Betsy, "and threatens terrible things to every one, who should dare to dispute the conquest of my heart with him'"
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Date: 1751
One may make "a conquest of a heart, without knowing it, which not the utmost endeavours of any other could ever subdue"
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Date: 1751
"His good sense, however, at last convinced him, that as no solid happiness could be expected with a woman of miss Betsy's temper, he ought to conquer his passion for her."
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Date: Saturday, March 30, 1751
"Few minds will be long confined to severe and laborious meditation; and when a successful attack on knowledge has been made, the student recreates himself with the contemplation of his conquest, and forbears another incursion, till the new-acquired truth has become familiar, and his curiosity ca...
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Date: Tuesday, January 22, 1751
"But they who are convinced of the necessity of breaking from this habitual drowsiness, too often relapse in spite of their resolution; for these ideal seducers are always near, and neither any particularity of time nor place is necessary to their influence; they invade the soul without warning, ...
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Date: August 27, 1751
"At length weariness succeeds to labour, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments, without any desire of new conquests or excursions."
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Date: 1753
One may make a new conquest and gain "a heart all flaming and adoration"
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Date: 1759
"He then communicated the various precepts given from time to time for the conquest of passion, and displayed the happiness of those who had obtained the important victory, after which man is no longer the slave of fear, nor the fool of hope; is no more emaciated by envy, inflamed by anger, emasc...
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