Date: Friday, August 21, 1724

"There are many Capricio's, that must be borne with, from them; but, in all other Cases, my Mind is my Kingdom; I am absolute, and will be so."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1724

"If I have here touch'd a young Lady's Vanity and Levity, it was to show her how beautiful she is without those Blots, which certainly stain the Mind, and stamp Deformity where the greatest Beauties would shine, were they banish'd."

— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)

Date: 1725

"Obedient let my Passions be / To all the Rules of strict Morality."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

Date: 1725-6

"A willing Goddess, and immortal life, / Might banish from thy mind an absent wife."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"Homer therefore evidently understood that the soul ought to govern and direct the passions, and that it is of a nature more divine than harmony."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725

"The under Passions may, by their various Operations, cause some Diversity in the Colour and Complexion of the Whole, but 'tis the Master-Passion which must determine the Character."

— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)

Date: 1725

"Stoop to the Gen'rous, if you seek Controll; / Vertue will fix your Empire on his Soul"

— Odingsells, Gabriel (1690-1734)

Date: 1725

A child may be governed Reason and her Father, unless she (like the rest of the "ungovernable Sex") think her own will her best adviser

— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)

Date: 1725

"Let reason rule the sallies of the mind"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

Date: 1725

In composition "Let sov'reign reason dictate from her throne"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)