Date: 1759

"If you, these moral Truths, would comprehend, / To moral Writers, your Attention lend; / By reading them, you'll Wisdom's Honey gain, / And with her golden Stores, inrich your Brain."

— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)

Date: 1759

"Read Locke, whose penetrating Searches show / The Source, from whence our first Ideas flow; / Whence, with collected Stores, like Waters join'd, / They form the Depths of intellectual Mind."

— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)

Date: 1759

"To Faith, and Reason, an impartial Friend, / He marks the Bounds, where they begin, and end; / Whilst he, to both, distinct Dominions gives, / Th'instructed Reader reasons, and believes."

— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)

Date: 1759

"Precepts in Verse, to measure still confin'd, / Can make more deep Impression, in the Mind."

— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)

Date: 1759

"Refine you Spirit, with assiduous Care, / From ev'ry vicious Weed, your Virtue clear; / Virtue, and Vice, grow in the human Mind, / Like Corn, and Weeds, together closely join'd; / Extirpate Self-conceit, the worst of Weeds, / That checks the Growth of intellectual Seeds; / Each rebel Passion, ...

— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)

Date: 1759

"Reason, and Faith, in friendly Union join'd, / Form the sincere Religion of the Mind; / Good Actions, its Sincerity declare, / Like Trees distinguish'd by the Fruit, they bear."

— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)

Date: 1759

"Beware of Self-deceit, that wily cheat, / Which blinds bright Intellect with vain Conceit; / Conceit sees Nothing in its real Light, / All Things alike delude its cheated Sight."

— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)

Date: 1759

"If not with Prejudice, and Passion blind, / In Reason's Glass, you will your Error find. / Search the Recesses of the human Soul, / Mark there, what secret Springs her Acts controul."

— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)

Date: 1759

"Let Conscience, Nature's Monitor, control / Your Conduct, she is Guardian to your Soul."

— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)

Date: 1759

"Shun Comedies, where Scenes indecent stain / The youthful Mind, with Images obscene."

— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)