Date: 1694
The body may be resurrected like "Grain thrown into the Ground" that continues there "for a season, as if lost and dead, but when warmth and moisture gives it force, it springs up, and bears a hundred-fold" in the "Resurrection of the Spring."
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1694
A wife is another self, "one in whose Breast, as in a sage Cabinet, is reposed his inmost Secrets"
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1694
On may achieve a "noble conquest" over his own passions
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1694
"Pray mind me, Sir, to shew my Shape and Aire; that as the Loadstone does the Obedient Iron--should draw by force to me all Hearts but yours--."
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Date: 1694, 1708
"The artful spring, like the diffusive soul, / Informs the machine, and directs the whole"
preview | full record— Yalden, Thomas (1670-1736)
Date: 1694, 1704
"If we give way to our Passions, we do but gratify our selves for the present, in order to our future disquiet; but if we resist and conquer them, we lay the foundation of perpetual peace and tranquillity in our minds."
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630–1694)
Date: 1694, 1704
"If we govern ourselves in the use of sensual delight, by the Laws of God and reason, we shall find ourselves more at ease than if we should let loose the reins to our appetites and lusts."
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Date: 1694, 1704
"Crescit indulgens sibi dirus hydrops, every lust is a kind of hydropick distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst."
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Date: 1694, 1704
"Present peace and satisfaction of mind, and unexpressible joy and pleasure flowing from the testimony of a good conscience."
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