Date: 1782
In polishing the mind, Luxury gives it a "childish cast"
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Date: 1782
"Let heathen worthies, whose exalted mind / Left sensuality and dross behind, / Possess for me their undisputed lot"
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Date: November 10, 1783
"He gives, what bankrupt Nature never can, / Whose noblest coin is light and brittle man, / Gold, purer far than Ophir ever knew, / A soul, an image of himself, and therefore true."
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Date: 1785
Wisdom is a pearl "with most success / Sought in still water, and beneath clear skies"
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Date: 1785
"Mark now the proof I give thee, that the brave / Need no such aids as superstition lends / To steel their hearts against the dread of death!"
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Date: 1786
One may steal "The gem of truth from his unguarded soul"
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Date: 1788
"Strong Genius, from whose forge of thought / Forms rise, to quick perfection wrought"
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Date: June, 1788
"Think, ye masters, iron-hearted, / Lolling at your jovial boards, / Think how many backs have smarted / For the sweets your cane affords."
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