Date: 1753
The conquest of a certain heart may cost a thousand times more labour and address than all previous victories
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Date: 1753
One may "contemplate the catastrophe of such a wicked life, that the moral might be the more deeply engraved on his remembrance"
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Date: 1753
"Exert then the whole force of your reason to curb the incroachments of lawless passion in your own heart"
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Date: 1753
"A young amorous heart, I think, may with some analogy be compared to tinder, as it is ready to take fire from every spark that falls"
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Date: 1753
Life may still linger "in some of its interior haunts" so that a doctor may immediately order "such applications to the extremities and surface of the body, as might help to concentrate and reinforce the natural heat"
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Date: 1753
"Though the soul, like a hermit in his cell, sits quiet in the bosom, unruffled by any tempest of its own, it suffers from the rude blasts of others faults"
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Date: 1753
"[M]ight I not hope my love, my truth, my perseverance, would in time find some room in a corner of that heart which doubtless then would have exterminated its first ideas.'"
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Date: 1753
One may have "a most insidious principle of self-love, that grew up with him from the cradle, and left no room in his heart for the least particle of social virtue"
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Date: 1753
"Though he expressed infinite anxiety and chagrin at this misfortune, which could not fail to raise new obstacles to their love, his heart was a stranger to the uneasiness he affected"
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Date: 1753
"The nymph, whose passions nature had filled to the brim, could not hear such a rhapsody unmoved"
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