Date: 1788
"The Mind herself, best judge of her own state, / Is feelingly convinced; nor to be moved / By subtle words, that may perplex the head, / But ne'er persuade the heart."
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Date: 1789, 1791, 1799
"Throned in the vaulted heart, his dread resort, / Inexorable Conscience holds his court"
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Date: 1803
"[W]rithing Mania sits on Reason's throne, /Or Melancholy marks it for her own"
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Date: 1803
"Reason's empire o'er the world presides, / And man from brute, and man from man divides"
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Date: w. 1775, 1827
"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined; / And either Muse is all thine own!"
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