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Date: December 29, 1759
"If the senses were feasted with perpetual pleasure, they would always keep the mind in subjection."
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Date: December 29, 1759
"But as we advance forward into the crowds of life, innumerable delights sollicit our inclinations, and innumerable cares distract our attention; the time of youth is passed in noisy frolicks; manhood is led on from hope to hope, and from project to project; the dissoluteness of pleasure, the ine...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: December 29, 1759
"In childhood, while our minds are yet unoccupied, religion is impressed upon them, and the first years of almost all who have been well educated are passed in a regular discharge of the duties of piety."
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