Date: December 1790
"Man has been termed, with strict propriety, a microcosm, a little world in himself."
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Date: December 1790
"[A]n immoderate desire to please contracts the faculties, and immerges, to borrow the idea of a great philosopher, the soul in matter, till it becomes unable to mount on the wing of contemplation."
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Date: December 1790
"Go hence, thou slave of impulse, look into the private recesses of thy heart, and take not a mote from thy brother’s eye, till thou hast removed the beam from thine own."
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