Date: 1744, 1753
"I can now sit in my Bed with a calm Resignation, to which my conquered Mind has been long a Stranger."
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Date: 1744, 1753
"At last it came into my head to try if he was generous enough to conquer his own Passion, rather than be the Cause of my being unhappy."
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Date: 1744, 1753
"CAMILLA heard him out, and then told him, she would do any thing in her power to serve him; but advised him, if possible, to try to conquer his Passion."
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Date: 1747-8
"O Jack! what a difficulty must a man be allowed to have, to conquer a predominant passion, be it what it will, when the gratifying of it is in his power, however wrong he knows it to be to resolve to gratify it!"
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Date: 1747-8
"Souls know no conquerors."
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Date: 1747-8
"In the other, the poet says not truth; for Conscience is the Conqueror of Souls: At least it is the Conqueror of mine: And who ever thought it a narrow one?"
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Date: 1747-8
One may have a soul like a shield that "take in all" of Fortune's quiver
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Date: 1747-8
"And is it not philosophy carried to the highest pitch, for a man to conquer such tumults of soul as I am sometimes agitated by, and, in the very height of the storm, to be able to quaver out an horse-laugh?"
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Date: 1747-8
Lovelace has not made "assiduity and obsequiousness, and a conquest of his unruly passions, any part of his study"
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Date: 1747-8
Lovelace has found, "[A] first passion thoroughly subdued, made the conqueror of it a rover; the conqueress a tyrant"
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