Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"The first person who came up in order to view her intellectual face was a commoner's wife, who, as I afterwards found, being bred during her virginity in a pawn-broker's shop, now attempted to make up the defects of breeding and sentiment by the magnificence of her dress, and the expensiveness o...
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Date: 1662, 1762
"My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee: in a barren and dry land, where no water is."
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Date: 1764
"Such principles are parts of our constitution, no less than the power of thinking: reason can neither make nor destroy them; nor can it do any thing without them: it is like a telescope, which may help a man to see farther, who hath eyes; but without eyes, a telescope shows nothing at all."
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Date: 1764
"The fabric of the human mind is intricate and wonderful, as well as that of the structure of the human body. The faculties of the one are with no less wisdom adpated to their several ends, than the organs of the other."
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Date: 1764
"All that we know of the body, is owing to anatomical dissection and observation, and it must be by an anatomy of the mind that we can discover its powers and principles."
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Date: 1764
"But the anatomist of the mind cannot have the same advantage."
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Date: 1765
"A sick Person has usually Confidence in his Physician, credits what is told him, and uses what is prescribed; but an immoral Man seldom believes that his Mind is sick, slights his Doctor, and applies not the proper Remedies."
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Date: 1765
"Youth is a continual Drunkenness; 'tis the Fever of Reason."
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Date: 1765
"The Defects of the Mind, like those of the Face, grow worse as we grow old."
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Date: 1765
"Use makes every Posture familiar to the Body, and every Opinion to the Mind."
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