Date: 1734
"What worlds of worth lay crowded in that breast! / Too strait the mansion for th'illustrious guest."
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Date: 1734
"Too strait the mansion for th'illustrious guest."
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Date: 1734
"Hail, holy souls, no more confin'd / To limbs and bones that clog the mind; / Ye have escap'd the snares, and left the chains behind."
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Date: 1744
"A serious mind is the native soil of every virtue, and the single character that does true honour to mankind."
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Date: 1744
"Reason progressive, Instinct is complete: / Swift Instinct leaps; slow Reason feebly climbs."
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Date: 1744
"Men perish in advance, as if the sun / Should set ere noon, in eastern oceans drown'd; / If fit, with dim ILLUSTRIOUS to compare, / The sun's meridian with the soul of man."
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Date: 1744
"Why, to be good in vain, is man betray'd? / Betray'd by traitors lodged in his own breast, / By sweet complacencies from Virtue felt?"
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Date: 1744
"Or if blind Instinct (which assumes the name / Of sacred Conscience) plays the fool in man, / Why Reason made accomplice in the cheat?"
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Date: 1744
"Can man by Reason's beam be led astray?"
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Date: 1744
"In man, the more we dive, the more we see / Heaven's signet stamping an immortal make."
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