Date: 1742
"The human mind cannot continue long quite a tabula rasa; some images must of course be gaining upon its affections, and consequently, forming some propensities or habits."
preview | full record— Turnbull, George (1698-1748)
Date: 1742
"Not all the chains that tyrants use / Shall bind their souls to vice."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1742
"He binds my Name upon his Arm, / And seals it on his Heart."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1742
"No more shall trickling Sorrows roll / Thro' those dear Windows of his Soul."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1742
"The mind naturally continues with the same impetus or force, which it has acquired by its motion; as a vessel, once impelled by the oars, carries on its course for some time, when the original impulse is suspended."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1742
"The soul affronts itself, when it becomes, as far as it can, an abscess or wen in the universe."
preview | full record— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180), Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), and James Moor (bap. 1712, d. 1779)
Date: 1742
"Is not the soul, which is often enslaved to it, much more excellent than the body?"
preview | full record— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180), Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), and James Moor (bap. 1712, d. 1779)
Date: 1742
"The soul is intelligence and deity."
preview | full record— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180), Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), and James Moor (bap. 1712, d. 1779)
Date: 1742
"To be moved, like puppets, by appetites and passions, is common to us with the wild beasts, with the most effeminate wretches, Phalaris, and Nero, with atheists, and with traitors to their country."
preview | full record— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180), Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), and James Moor (bap. 1712, d. 1779)
Date: 1780?
"Lust is the unbridled Horse of the Soul that has thrown its Rider."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)