Date: 1723
"Kings of the Empire of the Soul possest, / Who sit enthron'd secure in every Breast / In Civil Strength, and Glory will encrease, / And triumph mid'st the Joys of lasting Peace."
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Date: 1723
"Vice had usurp'd the Empire of his Soul."
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Date: 1723
"[C]an Arms o'er Reason Conquests win, / And triumph o'er the awful Judge within?"
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Date: 1723
"Can Kings the Empire of the Soul invade?"
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Date: 1723
"Tho' now, 'tis true, the strong Temptation's Force / Suspends Religion, and diverts its Course; / Yet still the Pow'r that chiefly rules your Soul, / And will I trust your future Life controul, / Is heav'nly Virtue, which, tho' now opprest / It sleeps a while unactive in your Breast, / Will, rou...
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Date: 1723
The "conscious Pow'r, the Judge within," may "With Frowns and awful Menaces begin / To fill [one] with Remorse and secret Fear"
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Date: 1745
"He who his rising Anger can't controul, / Shall rue the Sallies of his heated Soul, / Shall wish, in Agony of Heart, undone / What Passion will'd in absent Reason's Throne."
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Date: 1745
"Anger's a short-liv'd Madness, and with Sway, / Rules Sovereign if not tutor'd to obey"
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