Date: 1746

"Books, not well digested, blot the mind"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"So books, not well digested, blot the mind, / But make us - in search of wisdom - blind"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1733, 1748

"Still let my faithful Memory impart, / And deep engrave it on my grateful heart, / How just, and good, and excellent Thou art."

— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)

Date: 1749

"With a diamond's point it [sin] stands / Engraven on my heart / Wrote by mine, and Satan's hands / It mocks the' eraser's art."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1749

"See Lord, the Object of thy Love, / And O come quickly from above, / The Blessing to impart, / Him to Thyself by Faith unite, / And in large bloody Letters write / Forgiveness on his Heart."

— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)

Date: 1749

Those who know the righteousness of faith may "lovingly obedient show / The law engraven on [their] hearts."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1753

Locke's "guiding Hand th'ideal Blank explores, / And opens wide the Senses' various Doors, / Thro' which the thronging Thoughts their Passage find, / In social Tribes, and stock the peopled Mind."

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1746, 1757

"Shall He, to God / Dear as his Eye and Heart, engraven there / Deep from Eternity; alone Belov'd, / Alone Begotten! say, shall He become / A Man of Grief--for Man?"

— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)

Date: 1763

"Explore the dark recesses of the mind, / In the Soul's honest volume read mankind, / And own, in wise and simple, great and small, / The same grand leading Principle in All."

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1763

"No--'tis the tale which angry Conscience tells, / When She with more than tragic horror swells / Each circumstance of guilt; when stern, but true, / She brings bad actions forth into review; / And, like the dread hand-writing on the wall, / Bids late Remorse awake at Reason's call, / Arm'd at al...

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)