Date: 1769

Cares may "torment my tortur'd mind, / Leaving their rugged tracts behind"

— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)

Date: 1742

"But Thou canst wash the leper clean, / The stone to flesh convert, / Canst make the Ethiop change his skin, / And purify my heart ."

— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)

Date: 1702

"Tho' the Righteous be in Bonds confin'd, / They inwardly sweet Satisfaction find."

— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)

Date: 1704

We lift our Reason up, yet are only able to survey "Dawnings of Beams, and Promises of Day"

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

Date: 1706

The mind's "raging anguish" may be healed

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

Date: 1709

Honour is a "fatal Tumor of the Mind"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1709

"They fed the Body, but did feast the Mind"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1711

"Of all the causes which conspire to blind / Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind,/ What the weak head with strongest biass rules, / Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1711

"For as in bodies, thus in souls we find / What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind: / Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1711

"A little Learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Piërian spring: / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)