Date: 1792

"Her Heart a Stranger to Disguise; / Her Mind as perfect as her Face"

— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)

Date: 1793

" When painful truths invade the mind, / Ev'n wisdom wishes to be blind, / And hates th' officious ray."

— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)

Date: 1793

"The tendency of all false systems of political institution is to render the mind lethargic and torpid."

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

Date: 1793

"But it is certain that truth is adequate to awaken the mind without the aid of adversity"

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

Date: 1793

"For that purpose, thoroughly understand it yourself, impregnate your mind with its evidence, and speak from the clearness of your view, and the fulness of conviction."

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

Date: 1793

"It is not to the sound of intellectual health that the remedy so urgently addresses itself, as to those who are infected with diseases of the mind. "

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

Date: 1793

"Anarchy awakens mind"

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

Date: 1793

" [I]t is hardly to be believed that any man for the sake of some imaginary gratification to himself would wantonly injure the whole, if his mind were not first ulcerated with the impression of the injury that society by its ordinances is committing against him"

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

Date: 1793, 1806

The "eye of Reason" may "cloudless shine"

— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)

Date: 1942

"It has to be on that stage / And, like an insatiable actor, slowly and / With meditation, speak words that in the ear, / In the delicatest ear of the mind, repeat, / Exactly, that which it wants to hear, at the sound / Of which, an invisible audience listens, / Not to the play, but to itself, ex...

— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)