Date: 1706, 1715 [1706-1721]

"At the sight of this object I am not my own master: my soul is disturbed and rebels, and I fancy it has a mind to leave me!"

— Anonymous

Date: 1706, 1709

"We are a little Kingdom; But the Man / That chains his Rebel Will to Reasons Throne, / Forms it a large one."

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

Date: 1706, 1709

"But Charms so much divine / Hold a long Empire of the Heart."

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

Date: 1706

Many men "blinded as they have been from the beginning, they never could think otherwise; at least without a vigour of mind able to contest the empire of habit"

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Strike, to beat or hit, to affect or make an Impression upon the Senses or Mind; to make Measure even with a Strike or Strickle,"

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Captivate, to take captive, to inslave; a Word altogether apply'd to the Affections of the Mind."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"Conscience, the Testimony or Witness of one's own Mind, the inward Knowledge of a thing; a Scruple."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Date: 1706

"Matters that are recommended to our thoughts by any of our passions take possession of our minds with a kind of authority, and will not be kept out or dislodged, but, as if the passion that rules were, for the time, the sheriff of the place, and came with all the posse, the understanding is seiz...

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

Date: 1706

"There is scarce any body, I think, of so calm a temper who hath not sometime found this tyranny on his understanding, and suffered under the inconvenience of it."

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

Date: 1706

"And therefore wert thou bred to virtuous Knowledge, / And Wisdom early planted in thy Soul; / That thou might'st know to rule thy fiery Passions, / To bind their Rage, and stay their headlong Course."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)