Date: 1742
"True love strikes root in Reason, Passion's foe."
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Date: 1742
"At home a stranger, / Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, / And wondering at her own."
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Date: 1742
"While o'er my limbs Sleep's soft dominion spread, / What though my soul fantastic measures trod / O'er fairy fields; or mourn'd along the gloom / Of pathless woods; or, down the craggy steep / Hurl'd headlong, swam with pain the mantled pool; / Or scaled the cliff; or danced on hollow winds, / W...
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Date: 1742
"In every varied posture, place, and hour, / How widow'd every thought of every joy!"
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Date: 1742
" But what supreme joy in the victories over vice as well as misery, when, by virtuous example or wise exhortation, our fellow-creatures are taught to govern their passions, reform their vices, and subdue their worst enemies, which inhabit within their own bosoms?"
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Date: 1743
"My Mind was like a City up in Arms, all Confusion; and every new Thought was a fresh Disturber of my Peace."
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Date: 1743
"[T]here are Weaknesses in vulgar Life, which are commonly [Page 160] called Tenderness; to which great Minds are so entirely Strangers, that they have not even an Idea of them"
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Date: 1743
"Besides, as I never once thought, my Mind was useless to me, and I was an absolute Stranger to all the Pleasures arising from it"
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Date: 1743
"Mine is a true English Heart; it is an equal Stranger to the Heat of the Equator and the Frost of the Pole."
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Date: 1743
"The Pleasantness of this Vision, therefore, served only, on his awakening, to set forth his present Misery with additional Horrour, and to heighten the dreadful Ideas which now crowded on his Mind"
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