Date: 1790
"The man who feels the full distress of the calamity which has befallen him, who feels the whole baseness of the injustice which has been done to him, but who feels still more strongly what the dignity of his own character requires; who does not abandon himself to the guidance of the undiscipline...
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Date: 1790
"When the sense of propriety, when the authority of the judge within the breast, can control this extreme sensibility, that authority must no doubt appear very noble and very great."
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Date: 1790
"It is the slow, gradual, and progressive work of the great demigod within the breast, the great judge and arbiter of conduct."
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Date: 1790
"Regard to the sentiments of other people, however, comes afterwards both to enforce and to direct the practice of all those virtues; and no man during, either the whole of his life, or that of any considerable part of it, ever trod steadily and uniformly in the paths of prudence, of justice, or ...
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Date: 1759
"In the system of Plato the soul is considered as something like a little state or republic, composed of three different faculties or orders."
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Date: 1759
"This faculty Plato called, as it is very properly called, reason, and considered it as what had a right to be the governing principle of the whole."
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Date: 1759
"The different passions and appetites, the natural subjects of this ruling principle, but which are so apt to rebel against their master, he reduced to two different classes or orders."
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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!"
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Date: 1776, 1781, 1788-89
"At the age of twelve years he embraced the rigid system of the Stoicks, which taught him to submit his body to his mind, his passions to his reason; to consider virtue as the only good, vice as the only evil, all things external, as things indifferent."
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Date: 1697, 1700
"And from the narrow limits of the Heart, / The Active Soul doth vigorous Life impart / To all the Limbs, its Sway the Members own, / Wide is its Empire from its petty Throne."
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