Date: 1687
"Conscience is the Royalty and Prerogative of every Private man. He is absolute in his own Breast, and accountable to no Earthly Power, for that which passes only betwixt God and Him."
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Date: 1693
"Needless was written law, where none opprest; / The law of man was written in his breast."
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Date: 1693
"But if thy Passions lord it in thy Breast, / Art thou not still a Slave, and still opprest."
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Date: 1700
"If not your wife, let reason's rule persuade / Name but my fault, amends shall soon be made."
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Date: 1700
One cannot find "A throne so soft as in a woman's mind"
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Date: 1700, 1717
"This Helenus to great AEneas told, / Which I retain, e'er since in other Mould: / My Soul was cloath'd; and now rejoice to view / My Country Walls rebuilt, and Troy reviv'd anew, / Rais'd by the fall: Decreed by Loss to Gain; / Enslav'd but to be free, and conquer'd but to reign."
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