Date: 1754
"The human soul is so far from being furnished with forms and ideas to perceive all things by, or from being impregnated, I would rather say than printed over, with the seeds of universal knowledge, that we have no ideas till we receive passively the ideas of sensible qualities from without."
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
Date: 1759
"The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: September 1, 1759.
" Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away, and which new images are striving to obliterate."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Oh thou possessor of heavenly wisdom, would be this separation, this immeasurable distance from my friends, were I not able thus to delineate my heart upon paper, and to send thee daily a map of my mind."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Here it was that I exulted in my success; no blot, no stain, appeared on any part of the faithful mirror. As when the large, unwritten page presents its snowy spotless bosom to the writer's hand; so appeared the glass to my view."
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Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1762
"Lord, with Thy love's acutest dart / Engrave Thy name upon my heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find, / Begotten from above"
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Date: 1762
"His Spirit send into our hearts, / Engraving on our inward parts / The living law of holiest love"
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