Date: 1783
"If the human mind be a rasa tabula,--you to whom it is entrusted, should be cautious what is written upon it."
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Date: 1783
"I weave nets for insects; and if I suit my toil, for my game am I to be derided?"
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1783
"Weeds in abundance spring up in a piece of ground which is neglected; -- so do naughty dispositions in an uncultivated mind."
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Date: 1784
"'Tis in Clarinda's charming mind, / The sweet attraction lies; / There all that fire and life we find, / That sparkles in her eyes."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1784
"Till with care the garden of the mind."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1784
"As a piece of ground which is negligently cultivated, produces abundance of noxious weeds, so in the soul of an indolent man over-run with numberless vicious passions."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1785
"It is true, that I have the dear little babes of some particular friends more immediately in view; but my heart glows at the idea of smoothing the thorny paths of a thousand little innocents—of sparing the tears of helpless infants."
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Date: 1785
"Authority may place a child in the path of learning; but pleasure only can entice him on; let us therefor endeavour to strew the entrance with flowers, which may induce him to proceed with alacrity."
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Date: 1786
"Our minds are like blank paper, as a great philosopher has observed, and the first impressions they receive are generally the most permanent and powerful."
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Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"He consoled himself, however, for this intruding and unwelcome perception of his littleness, with the thought of being great in the eyes of others; and flattered himself that the light of his mind would extend beyond the reach of his sight, and extort from the stars the decrees of his destiny."
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)