Date: 1746
Too many books, "like too much wine - intoxicate the brain"
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Date: 1746
The rays of beauties may "wound the bleeding heart" and make "useless the medicable art"
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Date: 1746
"As when an inflammation pains the sight, / The tender eye can scarce endure the light," so the treacherous soul "wants a screen"
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Date: 1746
One's sires's "great soul" may respire in one's breast
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Date: 1746
"See other planets, suns, and systems roll, / And with celestial science-feast the soul,/ Low as the earth-ambition sinks again, / And what was thought a pleasure proves a pain."
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Date: 1746
"As age come on, and vigorous minds decay / All pleasures sicken, satiate, die away."
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Date: 1748
"When in the Hall of Smoke they congress hold, / And the sage berry, sun-burnt Mocha bears, / Has clear'd their inward eye: then, smoke-enroll'd, / Their oracles break forth mysterious as of old."
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Date: 1748
"But more he search'd the mind, and roused from sleep / Those moral seeds whence we heroic actions reap."
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Date: 1748
"But here, instead, is foster'd every ill, / Which or distemper'd minds or bodies know."
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