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“The mind, too, should be soothed . . . whenever it sinks, soothing is, better than reasoning. The slackened nerves are not to be braced by words. When a mind is worried by care, or oppressed by sorrow, it cannot in a moment grow tranquil, and attend to the voice of reason.” — Mary Wollstonecraft
The mind, too, should be soothed . . . whenever it sinks, soothing is, better than reasoning. The slackened nerves are not to be braced by words. When a mind is worried by care, or oppressed by sorrow, it cannot in a moment grow tranquil, and attend to the voice of reason.