Date: January 19, 1791
"Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in pro...
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Date: January 19, 1791
"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
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Date: January 19, 1791
"You know them but at a distance, on the statements of those who always flatter the reigning power, and who, amidst their representations of the grievances, inflame your minds against those who are oppressed. These are amongst the effects of unremitted labour, when men exhaust their attention, bu...
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Date: 1792
"The King of England steels his heart against us"
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Date: 1794
"Forgetfulness, dumbness, necessity! / In chains of the mind locked up, / Like fetters of ice shrinking together."
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Date: 1796
"Thus Books are intellectual Aliment drest / For every appetite of every guest."
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Date: w. October, 1796; 1810
"Conscious the mortal stamp is on thy breast."
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Date: 1801
A strenuous mind may have "master passions" that may be bred by nature or nurtured by indulgence
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Date: 1801
The heart may bear a "fair image"
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Date: 1801
A cloud may darkly over one's fancy play
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