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Date: 1762

"Had the proud exile read my heart, / He then must have appeas'd the woes I suffer'd, / He then had pardon'd, and thou might'st have sooth'd me."

— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)

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Date: 1762

"Plus je rentre en moi, plus je me consulte, & plus je lis ces mots écrits dans mon âme: Sois juste, & tu seras heureux. [The more I return within myself, the more I consult myself, the more plainly do I read these words written in my soul: Be just and you will be happy.]"

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

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Date: 1762

"En suivant toujours ma méthode, je ne tire point ces règles des principes d’une haute philosophie, mais je les trouve au fond de mon coeur écrites par la nature en caractères ineffaçables [Following always my method, I do not draw these rules from the principles of the higher philosophy, but I f...

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

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Date: 1762

"Tous les devoirs de la loi naturelle, presque effacés de mon coeur par l’injustice des hommes, s’y retracent au nom de l’éternelle justice qui me les impose & qui me les voit remplir plus en moi que l’ouvrage & l’instrument du veut le bien, qui le fait, qui fera le mien par mes volontés aux sien...

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

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Date: 1762

"Cette doctrine, venant de Dieu, doit porter le sacré caractère de la Divinité; non seulement elle doit nous éclaircir les idées confuses que le raisonnement en trace dans notre esprit, mais elle doit aussi nous proposer un culte, une morale & des maximes convenables aux attributs par lesquels se...

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

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Date: 1762

"Je viens, mon jeune ami, de vous réciter de bouche ma profession de foi telle que Dieu la lit dans mon coeur."

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

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Date: 1760-1761, 1762

"Oh thou possessor of heavenly wisdom, would be this separation, this immeasurable distance from my friends, were I not able thus to delineate my heart upon paper, and to send thee daily a map of my mind."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

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Date: 1760-1761, 1762

"Here it was that I exulted in my success; no blot, no stain, appeared on any part of the faithful mirror. As when the large, unwritten page presents its snowy spotless bosom to the writer's hand; so appeared the glass to my view."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

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Date: 1761-1762

"Coming, as most boys do, a rasa tabula to the university, and believing (his country education teaching him no better) that all human and divine knowledge was to be had there, he quickly fell into the then prevailing notions of the high and independent powers of the clergy."

— Author Unknown

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Date: 1762

"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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