Date: 1773, 1894-1895
"Your Doctor's Potion, Patience, and the Bark, / May hit both mental, and material Mark; / One serves to keep the Ague from the Mind, / As t'other does, from its corporeal Rind."
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Date: 1773, 1894-1895
"For what the Bark is to the growing Tree, / To human Mind, that, Patience seems to be; / They hold the Principles of Growth together, / And blunt the Force of Accident, and Weather."
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Date: 1773, 1894-1895
"Patience defends us from all outward Hap; / Of inward Life Thanksgiving is the Sap."
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Date: 1773, 1894-1895
"That He, to Whom all Love is due, / Engraves upon pure loving Hearts."
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Date: 1773
"If Reason must judge, and we two must agree, / Another, third Reason must give the Decree"
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Date: 1773, 1894-1895
One may learn "her Lesson from within" and "There […] read the Characters imprest / Upon the Mind of ev'ry human Breast,-- / The native Laws prescrib'd to every Soul, / And Love, the One Fulfiller of the Whole."
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Date: 1773
"Within each willing heart [the Royal Ebor] rais'd his throne."
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Date: 1773
"Zounds! Sir, can you give any relief to a soul that is haunted by Furies?"
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1773
One's judgment may appear to be "sometimes almost eclipsed by the brilliancy of her imagination"
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Date: 1773
"I blot from my memory every other woman; those every-day beauties (as Terence calls them) who have nothing but their sex to recommend them."
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