Date: 1744
"What, in that stubborn heart if I should find / New, unexpected witnesses against thee? / Ambition, Pleasure, and the Love of Gain!"
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Date: 1744
"Ambition, Pleasure, and the Love of Gain! / Canst thou suspect that these, which make the Soul / The slave of earth, should own her heir of heaven?"
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Date: 1744
"When souls take fire / At high presumptions of their own desert, / One age is poor applause; the mighty shout, / The thunder by the living few begun, / Late time must echo; worlds unborn, resound."
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Date: 1744
"We wish our names eternally to live: / Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought / Had not our natures been eternal too."
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Date: 1744
"Instinct points out an interest in hereafter; / But our blind Reason sees not where it lies; / Or, seeing, gives the substance for the shade."
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Date: 1744
"I'll introduce Lorenzo to himself: / Pleasure and Pride (bad masters) share our hearts."
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Date: 1744
"As Love of Pleasure is ordain'd to guard / And feed our bodies, and extend our race; / The Love of Praise is planted to protect / And propagate the glories of the mind."
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Date: 1744
"Thirst of Applause is Virtue's second guard; / Reason her first; but Reason wants an aid; / Our private Reason is a flatterer; / Thirst of Applause calls Public Judgment in, / To poise our own, to keep an even scale, / And give endanger'd Virtue fairer play."
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Date: 1744
"To store up treasure with incessant toil,-- / This is man's province, this his highest praise, / To this great end keen Instinct stings him on. / To guide that Instinct, Reason! is thy charge; / 'Tis thine to tell us where true treasure lies."
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Date: 1744
"But, Reason failing to discharge her trust, / Or to the deaf discharging it in vain, / A blunder follows; and blind Industry, / Gall'd by the spur, but stranger to the course, / (The course where stakes of more than gold are won,) / O'erloading, with the cares of distant age, / The jaded spirits...
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