Date: Wednesday, June 18, 1712
"We shall no more admire at the Proceedings of Catiline or Tiberius, when we know the one was actuated by a cruel Jealousie, the other by a furious Ambition; for the Actions of Men follow their Passions as naturally as Light does Heat, or as any other Effect flows from its Cause."
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Date: Wednesday, June 18, 1712
"We must therefore be very cautious, lest while we think to regulate the Passions, we should quite extinguish them, which is putting out the Light of the Soul: for to be without Passion, or to be hurried away with it, makes a Man equally blind."
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Date: 1731
"From what rich Fountain flow / Those ripened Beams of intellectual Day"?
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Date: 1731
"[C]onstant Flames the Lamp of Reason fill / To light the Judgment and direct the Will."
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