Date: 1747-8

"How difficult does every man find it, as well as me, to forego a predominant passion? I have three passions that sway me by turns; all imperial ones. Love, Revenge, Ambition, or a desire of conquest."

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1747-8

"See that your own predominant passions, whatever they be, hurry you not into as much wickedness, as mine do me."

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1747-8

"Who, let me ask, that has it in his power to gratify a predominant passion, be it what it will, denies himself the gratification?"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1747-8

"And if he does, it will demonstrate that malice and revenge were the predominant passions with him"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1747-8

"Revenge, invoked I to myself, keep thy throne in my heart--If the usurper Love once more drive thee from it, thou wilt never regain possession!"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1747-8

Power's "amplest, best Extent" is "An Empire o'er [one's] Mind"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1748

"[F]ond anxiety, the glowing hopes, and chilling fears" may "rule [the] breast by turns"

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: 1747-8

In the afterlife "to be worse than worst / Of those that lawless and uncertain thought / Imagines howling" is too horrible

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1748, 1777

"They know, that a human body is a mighty complicated machine: That many secret powers lurk in it, which are altogether beyond our comprehension: That to us it must often appear very uncertain in its operations: And that therefore the irregular events, which outwardly discover themselves, can be ...

— Hume, David (1711-1776)

Date: 1748

"Consequently, whenever a Man attempts to subdue his Passions, and to put them under the regular Government of their natural sovereign Reason, the irrational Part must submit to the rational, the Brute must yield to the Man, and the Soul in the Event gain the Superiority over every Passion or App...

— Anonymous