Date: 1744

"Why, to be good in vain, is man betray'd? / Betray'd by traitors lodged in his own breast, / By sweet complacencies from Virtue felt?"

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Or if blind Instinct (which assumes the name / Of sacred Conscience) plays the fool in man, / Why Reason made accomplice in the cheat?"

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Can man by Reason's beam be led astray?"

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"In man, the more we dive, the more we see / Heaven's signet stamping an immortal make."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Dive to the bottom of his soul, the base / Sustaining all, what find we? Knowledge, love. / As light and heat essential to the sun, / These to the soul."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Still unsubdued thy stubborn heart?--for there / The traitor lurks, who doubts the truth I sing."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Reason is guiltless! Will alone rebels."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"What, in that stubborn heart if I should find / New, unexpected witnesses against thee? / Ambition, Pleasure, and the Love of Gain!"

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Ambition, Pleasure, and the Love of Gain! / Canst thou suspect that these, which make the Soul / The slave of earth, should own her heir of heaven?"

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"When souls take fire / At high presumptions of their own desert, / One age is poor applause; the mighty shout, / The thunder by the living few begun, / Late time must echo; worlds unborn, resound."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)