Date: 1756, 1766
"Let us hearken then to the original law of reason, and follow God and nature as the sure guide to happiness."
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Date: 1756, 1766
Too much gold "gives the passions the commanding influence, and makes reason receive law from appetite"
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Date: 1756, 1766
A passion may be "rebellious and lawless"
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Date: 1756, 1766
Too much gold "gives the passions the commanding influence, and makes reason receive law from appetite."
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Date: 1760-7
"When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his Hobby-Horse grows head-strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion!"
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Date: 1760-7
"Thus conscience, this once able monitor,--placed on high as a judge within us, and intended by our Maker as a just and equitable one too,--by an unhappy train of causes and impediments, takes often such imperfect cognizance of what passes,--does its office so negligently,--sometimes so corruptly...
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Date: 1760-7
Whenever one's "inward testimony goes against a man, and he stands self-accused,--that he must necessarily be a guilty man."
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Date: 1760-7
The "little interests below" may "rise up and perplex the faculties of our upper regions, and encompass them about with clouds and thick darkness."
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Date: 1760-7
"Could no such thing as favour and affection enter this sacred Court [of Conscience]:--Did Wit disdain to take a bribe in it;--or was asham'd to shew its face as an advocate for an unwarrantable enjoyment?"
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Date: 1760-7
"Or, lastly, were we assured, that Interest stood always unconcern'd whilst the cause was hearing,--and that passion never got into the judgment-seat, and pronounc'd sentence in the stead of reason, which is supposed always to preside and determine upon the case."
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