Date: 1704
"You boast, indeed, of being obliged to no other Creature, but of drawing, and spinning out all from your self; That is to say, if we may judge of the Liquor in the Vessel by what issues out, You possess a good plentiful Store of Dirt and Poison in your Breast; And, tho' I would by no means, less...
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Date: 1733
"I love to pour out all myself, as plain / As downright Shippen, or as old Montagne. / In them, as certain to be lov'd as seen, / The Soul stood forth, nor kept a Thought within; / In me what Spots (for Spots I have) appear, / Will prove at least the Medium must be clear."
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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
"Yes, Nature's road must ever be prefer'd; / Reason is here no guide, but still a guard."
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Date: 1733-4
Reason gives the ruling passion more power "As Heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sowr"
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Date: 1733-4
"What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide: / And Middle natures, how they long to join, / Yet never pass th'insuperable line!"
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Date: 1733-4
"Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; / Reason's comparing balance rules the whole."
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Date: 1733-4
"Strong grows the Virtue with his nature mix'd; / The dross cements what else were refin'd, / And in one interest body acts with mind."
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Date: w. 1737, published 1738
"A Voice there is, that whispers in my ear, / ('Tis Reason's voice, which sometimes one can hear)."
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