Date: 1742

"Lady Booby found good Reason to doubt whether she had so absolutely conquered her Passion, as she had flattered herself"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1742

One may be "a great Enemy to the Passions" and, like Parson Adams, preach "nothing more than the Conquest of them by Reason and Grace"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1742

"Yes, Joseph, my Eyes whether I would or no, must have declared a Passion I cannot conquer"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1742

"Yes, I thank Heaven and my Pride, I have now perfectly conquered this unworthy Passion"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1742

"The soul, thus free from passions, is a strong fort; nor can a man find any stronger, to which he can fly, and become invincible for the future."

— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180), Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), and James Moor (bap. 1712, d. 1779)

Date: 1742

"Not the gross act alone employs her pen; / She reconnoitres Fancy's airy band, / A watchful foe! the formidable spy, / Listening, o'erhears the whispers of our camp; / Our dawning purposes of heart explores, / And steals our embryos of iniquity."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1742

"Speech ventilates our intellectual fire; / Speech burnishes our mental magazine, / Brightens for ornament, and whets for use."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1742

God may "conquer my rebellious will, / And bid my murmuring heart 'Be Still.'"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1742

"[I]t ought rather to be a Rule with Parents, who shall chastize their Children, to conquer what would be extreme in their own Passion" rather than to defer punishment

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1743

It may cost one "more struggling than may easily be believed, utterly to conquer his Reluctance, and to banish away every Degree of Humanity from his Mind"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)