Date: 1734 [1735?]

"We call that Judgment which is only Will, / And as we act, we learn to argue ill; / Like Bigots, who their various Creeds defend / By making Reason still to System bend."

— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)

Date: 1734 [1735?]

"Customs or Int'rests govern all Mankind, / Some Biass cleaves to the unguarded Mind; / Thro' this, as in a false or flatt'ring Glass / Things seem to change their Natures as they pass."

— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)

Date: 1734 [1735?]

"Man, Slave to Sense no higher Bliss can know, / Still measures Things above by Things below."

— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)

Date: 1734 [1735?]

"Error that great Distemper of the Mind, / Hard to be cur'd, because 'tis hard to find; / So mixt and blended with our very Frame, / It lurks secure, and borrows Reason's Name."

— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)

Date: 1734 [1735?]

"Wrong Turns of Head are Nature's greatest Curse, / Improving ev'ry Day from bad to worse. / In some odd Light all Objects still they view, / Thus true with them is false, and false is true."

— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)

Date: 1734 [1735?]

"Deaf to Advice, or taking Wrong for Right, / They boldly blunder on in Reason's Spite; / And under clearer Light's obscure Pretence / Live the Antipodes of common Sense."

— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)

Date: 1734, 1753

"Souls have no sexes; and if minds agree, / Parting is dying, to set fancy free."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1734, 1753

"Oh! 'tis too delicate!--'tis falsely nice, / To bar the heart against the mind's advice."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1734, 1753

"Bold, in your guarded strength, your heart unbind, / And, to be safe--suppose yourself all mind."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1734, 1753

"Love's generous warmth does reason's pow'r display, / And fills desire, as light embodies day."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)