Date: 1773, 1806
"Truth's unclouded ray" may strike the soul and melt Suspicion away
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Date: 1775, 1776
"'Let Meekness as a dove / 'Brood in man's heart the sacred acts of Love."
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Date: 1772-1781, 1781
"But, if thy faint springs / Refuse this large supply, steel thy firm soul / With stoic pride"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1782
"But what is man in his own proud esteem? / Hear him, himself the poet and the theme: / A monarch clothed with majesty and awe, / His mind his kingdom, and his will his law, / Grace in his mien and glory in his eyes, / Supreme on Earth and worthy of the skies, / Strength in his heart, dominion in...
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Date: 1782
Books may adorn one's "intellects as well as shelves"
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Date: 1782
"His passions tamed and all at his control, / How perfect the composure of his soul!"
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Date: 1782
Complacency may breath a gentle gail over the thoughts and swell an "easy sail"
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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: 1782
Time is a river that fails to enrich the mind and "leaves a dreary waste behind"
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Date: 1782
"Happiest soil" may be found "in the serenest minds"
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