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01c. 1746 AD

I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

Samuel Johnson / quote

02c. 1746 AD

I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.

Samuel Johnson / quote

03c. 1746 AD

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Samuel Johnson / quote

04c. 1746 AD

A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.

Samuel Johnson / quote

05c. 1741 AD

For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.

Lord Lyttleton / quote

06c. 1734 AD

Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

Edward Moore / quote

07c. 1738 AD

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

William Shenstone / quote

08c. 1743 AD

To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,— The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.

Thomas Gray / quote

09c. 1743 AD

Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame.

Thomas Gray / quote

10c. 1743 AD

Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

Thomas Gray / quote

11c. 1747 AD

Their cause I plead,—plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.

David Garrick / quote

12c. 1747 AD

Here lies James Quinn. Deign, reader, to be taught, Whate'er thy strength of body, force of thought, In Nature's happiest mould however cast, To this complexion thou must come at last.

David Garrick / quote

13c. 1790 AD

Bom. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echoed along the shore. Artax. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar; And the first lion thought the last a bore.

William B. Rhodes / quote

14c. 1751 AD

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

15c. 1751 AD

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

16c. 1751 AD

Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

17c. 1763 AD

The march of the human mind is slow.

Edmund Burke / quote

18c. 1763 AD

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning star full of life and splendour and joy. . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,—in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded.

Edmund Burke / quote

19c. 1747 AD

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

Charles Churchill / quote

20c. 1765 AD

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

William Cowper / quote

21c. 1765 AD

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged, arrows of light.

William Cowper / quote

22c. 1765 AD

That though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind.

William Cowper / quote

23c. 1765 AD

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

William Cowper / quote

24c. 1765 AD

In indolent vacuity of thought.

William Cowper / quote