Date: 1790
"There is no commonly honest man who does not more dread the inward disgrace of such an action, the indelible stain which it would for ever stamp upon his own mind, than the greatest external calamity which, without any fault of his own, could possibly befal him; and who does not inwardly feel th...
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Date: 1791
Gods are "swift as the traveller's thought"
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Date: 1791
"But when the Gods with evils unforeseen / Smite him, he bears them with a grudging mind; / For such as the complexion of his lot / By the appointment of the Sire of all, Such is the colour of the mind of man."
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Date: 1791
A thought may occupy and haunt the mind
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Date: 1791, 1806
To Shakespeare's illumined sight was consigned "The rugged cavern of the Murd'rer's breast"
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Date: 1791
"and my mother's mind / In doubtful balance hangs, if still with me / An inmate, she shall manage my concerns, / Attentive only to her absent Lord / And her own good report"
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Date: 1792
Marks of mind are "Stamp'd on each countenance"
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Date: 1797
" For, Cupid, well thou know'st, the tender soul, / That Poesy inspires, is very wax / To Beauty's piercing ray"
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Date: 1797
"[M]ark it well, / And stamp the awful moral on your souls"
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