Date: 1762
"never joy, / Save th' anxious sordid one to view his gold, / Could touch his marble heart"
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Date: 1762
"But as the fire / Refines the silver; so a taste of woe / Awakes the Soul."
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Date: 1776
"One breast alone against his rage was steel'd, / Secure in spotless Truth's celestial shield"
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Date: 1776
"Forgive, O king, if as a man I feel, / I bear no bosom of obdurate steel"
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Date: w. 1755, 1777
"She [Nature] employs it [spiritual substance] as a kind of paste or clay; modifies it into a variety of forms and existences; dissolves after a time each modification, and from its substance erects a new form."
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Date: w. 1755, 1777
"And does any thing steel the breast of judges and juries against the sentiments of humanity but reflections on necessity and public interest?"
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Date: 1794
"'What numerous ills in life befall! / 'Yet Wisdom learns to scorn them all, / 'And arms the breast with steel"
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Date: 1806
"And now, cold horror trembles o'er my soul, / When thou in blank uncertainty array'd, / With iron-hearted deaf control / Throw'st all around thy awful, dubious shade"
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