Date: 1735

"And, Reason rises, the Newtonian Sun, / Moves all, guides all, and all sustains in one."

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1735, 1736

"In Men, we various Ruling Passions find, / In Women, two almost divide the kind; / Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, / The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Sway."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1735

"Tho' Reason's Lord, some ruling Passion's Tool, / The wisest man, in some things, is a Fool"

— Miller, James (1704-1744)

Date: 1734-1735

"Hark! she invites from city smoke and noise, / Vapours impure, and from impurer joys; / From various evils, that, with rage combin'd, / Untune the body, and pollute the mind."

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

Date: 1735

"God gave us Reason ... A faithful guide to comfort and to save, / Till the mind floats, like Peter on the wave."

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1736

"Awake, great Common Sense, and sleep no more, / Look to thy self; for then, when I was slain, / Thy self was struck at."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1736

"Physicians cannot dose away [men's] Souls."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1736

"Upon the whole, then, our organs of sense and our limbs are certainly instruments which the living persons, ourselves, make use of to perceive and move with: there is not any probability that they are any more; nor consequently, that we have any other kind of relation to them, that what we may h...

— Butler, Joseph (1692-1752)

Date: 1736

"Each keeps the other's Image in his Breast, / As Wax preserves the Form a Seal imprest."

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1736

"Weighty cares may "the pensive Mind invade"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)