Indexed in the public record
“Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Expostulation and Reply.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 05fff22f58eace9c8e6b12968c20c0c68e6045cb840cf04057810653260b9de6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly…”
Jane Taylor
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies…”
Epictetus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed…”
Epictetus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability…”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there…”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.