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Date: 1775
"Body may be overcome by body, but the mind only can conquer itself."
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Date: 1775
"We do not, indeed, feel our minds impressed with such a tender sensibility towards the latter, as the first."
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Date: 1775
"This is the true nature of the human mind; the greater evil always swallowing up the lesser, as the rod of Moses did the other serpents."
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Date: 1775
"Momus well wished a window in every man's breast. Physiognomists pretend they can take a peep through the features of the face; but this is too abstruse a science to answer the general purposes of life; besides that education may render such knowledge doubtful, as in the case of Socrates."
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Date: 1775
"The remainder of this speech is worth quoting, both on account of the fine poetical imagery it contains, and in order to shew the strong terror which guilt had impressed on his mind, by his invoking even inanimate matter not to inform against him."
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Date: 1775
"In the first part of my remark on the second Scene above, I have observed upon the impressions that a disturbed mind is apt to stamp on our dreams and sight."
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Date: 1775
"Coriolanus has here carried his sternness, and the strained principles of stoical pride, whose throne is only in the mind, as far as they could go; and now great Nature, whose more sovereign seat of empire is in the heart, takes her turn to triumph; for upon the joint prayers, tears, and intreat...
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Date: 1775
"There is a contagion in minds and manners, as well as in bodies, when corrupt."
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Date: 1775
"But, as I have said before, I do not think that ethic philosophy can ever be a gainer, by overstraining the sinews of the human mind."
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Date: 1775
"In this scenic province of instruction, our representations are much better calculated to answer the end proposed, than those of the Antients were, on account of the different hours of exhibition. Theirs were performed in the morning; which circumstance suffered the salutary effect to be worn ou...
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