Date: 1733-4
"On Life's vast ocean diversely we sail, / Reason the card, but Passion is the gale."
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Date: 1733-4
"Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, / Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain, / These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd, / Make, and maintain, the balance of the mind."
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Date: 1733-4
"And hence one Master Passion in the breast, / Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest."
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Date: 1733-4
"So, cast and mingled with his very frame, / The mind's disease, its ruling passion came: / Each vital humour which should feed the whole, / Soon flows to this, in body and in soul."
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"Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms, / Pours fierce Ambition in a Caesar's mind."
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"Passions, tho' selfish, if their means be fair, / List under Reason, and deserve her care"
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"Passions, like Elements, tho' born to fight, / Yet, mix'd and soften'd, in his work unite"
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"Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r; / As Heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sowr"
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"Nature its mother, Habit is its nurse; / Wit, Spirit, Faculties, but make it worse; / Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r; / As Heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sowr; / We wretched subjects tho' to lawful sway, / In this weak queen, some fav'rite still obey."
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Date: 1733-4
"She but removes weak passions for the strong: / So, when small humors gather to a gout, / The doctor fancies he has driv'n them out."
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