Date: 1790
"Shining parts, like the bright colourings of porcelain, or the lustres of glass in a well furnished house, are beautiful decorations and striking ornaments; but good sense, like the solid service of plate, is alone substantial and intrinsically valuable."
preview | full record— Moore, Charles (fl. 1785-90)
Date: 1790, 1794, 1795, 1818, 1827
"Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1790, 1794, 1795, 1818, 1827
"For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1790
"That the countenance is an index of the mind, he has here fully shewn; honesty being pictured in the countenance of the accused, and villainy in that of his accusers."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1790
"This passion, like a snow-ball, will gather as it rolls, and gain strength by age."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1790
"Vain are a man's titles--vain his wealth--vain his pursuits of pleasure--the guilty mind has no enjoyment--neither rank nor riches can steel the breast against the stings of conscience."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1790
"True happiness is seated in the mind, and within every one's reach If our fortune is not adequate to our wishes, let us confine our wishes to our fortune."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1790
"'A CLOSE mouth,' says Solomon, 'makes a wise head' and 'a fool's bolt is soon shot,' implying, that prating and tattling is the index of a weak mind."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1790, 1794
"You, my dear friend, who have felt the tender attachments of love and friendship, and the painful anxieties which absence occasions, even amidst scenes of variety and pleasure; who understand the value at which tidings from those we love is computed in the arithmetic of the heart."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1790
"The worst of these politics of revolution is this; they temper and harden the breast, in order to prepare it for the desperate strokes which are sometimes used in extreme occasions."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)