Date: 1696

"Look you, Sir, my Reason weighs this Injury, which is so light, it will not raise my Anger in the other Scale."

— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

Date: 1696

"Can Fancy be a surer Guide to Happiness than Reason?"

— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

Date: 1696

"O! that we cou'd incorporate, be one, / One Body, as we have been long one Mind: / That blended so, we might together mix, / And losing thus our Beings to the World, / Be only found to one anothers Joys."

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Date: 1697

"The Soul that awful Throne of Thought, That sacred Seat of Contemplation."

— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)

Date: 1697

"Many fleeting Thoughts pass through the Soul without Observation, and leave no Trace or Idea behind them"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

Date: 1697

"As when you make Cogitation in us to be like Motion in Matter, which receives its Motion from external Impression"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

Date: 1697

"Upon your Supposition That all our Thoughts perish in sound Sleep, and all Cogitation is extinct, we seem to have a new Soul every Morning."

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

Date: 1697

"As fire this figure hardens, made of clay, / And this of wax with fire consumes away; / Such let the soul of cruel Daphnis be--"

— Dryden, John (1631-1700); Virgil (70 B.C. - 19 B.C.)

Date: 1697

"Her Mony may raise many a false pretended Passion, and young Women seldom want a little hardned Vanity to stamp it into Currant Love."

— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

Date: 1697

"[T[hou shalt see me mould his heart in the palm of my Hand like soft Wax, till I make it bear what impression I please"

— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)