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Date: 1762

"Some emotions, by hurrying the mind from object to object, accelerate the succession. Where the train is composed of connected objects, the succession is quick. For it is so ordered by nature, that the mind goes easily and sweetly along connected objects. On the other hand, the succession must b...

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

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Date: 1762

"The mind can bear a quick succession of related ideas. But an unrelated idea, for which the mind is not prepared, takes time to make a distinct impression; and therefore a train composed of such ideas, ought to proceed with a slow pace."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

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Date: 1762

"Another valuable purpose may be gathered, from considering in what manner objects are imprinted upon the mind."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

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Date: 1762

"To make such an impression as to give the memory fast hold of the object, time is required, even where attention is the greatest; and a moderate degree of attention, which is the common case, must be continued still longer to produce the same effect."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

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Date: 1762

"Après avoir ainsi, de l’impression des objets sensibles & du sentiment intérieur qui me porte à juger des causes selon mes lumières naturelles, déduit les principales vérités qu’il m’importoit de connaître, il me reste a chercher que, es maximes j’en dois tirer pour ma conduite, & quelles règles...

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

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Date: 1762

"Plus tard, la substance est durcie, & les nouvelles empreintes ne marquent plus. Jeune homme, recevez dans votre âme, encore flexible, le cachet de la vérité."

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

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Date: 1760-1761, 1762

"I was deaf, insensible, rock, adamant, the bailiffs could make no impression on my hard heart, for I effectually kept my liberty by never stirring out of the room."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

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Date: 1760-1761, 1762

"Those storms may discompose in proportion as they are strong, or the mind is pliant to their impression."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

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Date: 1762

"And stamp Thine image on my breast, / And fill my emptied heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: November, 1762; 1797

"This reflection was so strongly impressed upon my mind, that T'was able to employ the succeeding morning in setting down the particulars of a dream occasioned by it."

— Thornton, Bonnell (1725-1768)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.