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Date: 1783
"Elegant speculations are sometimes found to float on the surface of the mind, while bad passions possess the interior regions of the heart."
preview | full record— Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)
Date: October, 1784
"HUMAN thoughts are like the planetary system, where many are fixed, and many wander, and many continue for ever unintelligible; or rather like meteors, which generally lose their substance with their lustre."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: October, 1784
"The understanding is like the sun, which gives light and life to the whole intellectual world; but the memory, regarding those things only that are past, is like the moon, which is new and full and has her wane by turns."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: October, 1784
"Peace is the calm which succeeds the tempest, and hushes the billows of interest and passion to rest."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: October, 1784
"Every man may learn the elements of geography, which is the noblest science in the world, from an attention to the temperature of his own mind."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: October, 1784
"They who take self-love for their guide, ride in the paths of partiality, on the horse of adulation, to the judge of falsehood; but he who prefers the mandate of reason, rides in the way of probability on the courser of prudence."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: October, 1784
"Prudence through the ground of misery cuts a river of patience, where the Mind swims in boats of tranquillity along the streams of life, until she arrives at the haven of death, where all streams meet."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: October, 1784
"The mind is a garden where all manner of seeds are sown."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: October, 1784
"Justice should be a man's governor [...] Reason his secretary, / Judgment his steward."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: October 1784
"She grows up, and of course mixes with those who are less interested: strangers will be sincere; she encounters the tongue of the flatterer, he will exaggerate, she finds herself possessed of accomplishments which have been studiously concealed from her, she throws the reins upon the neck of fan...
preview | full record— Murray, Judith Sargent (1751-1820)
