Date: 1747-8

"But by the fierceness of mine, as my trembling hands seized hers, I soon made fear her predominant passion."

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1747-8

"How difficult does every man find it, as well as me, to forego a predominant passion? I have three passions that sway me by turns; all imperial ones. Love, Revenge, Ambition, or a desire of conquest."

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1747-8

"See that your own predominant passions, whatever they be, hurry you not into as much wickedness, as mine do me."

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1747-8

"Who, let me ask, that has it in his power to gratify a predominant passion, be it what it will, denies himself the gratification?"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1747-8

"And if he does, it will demonstrate that malice and revenge were the predominant passions with him"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1747-8

"Revenge, invoked I to myself, keep thy throne in my heart--If the usurper Love once more drive thee from it, thou wilt never regain possession!"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1747-8

Power's "amplest, best Extent" is "An Empire o'er [one's] Mind"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1747-8

In the afterlife "to be worse than worst / Of those that lawless and uncertain thought / Imagines howling" is too horrible

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1748, 1768

Friendly powers create "These maladies in pity to mankind: / These abdicated Reason reinstate / When lawless Appetite usurps the mind"

— Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1705-1760)

Date: 1749

Truely happy are "those who can / Govern that little empire, Man"

— Stepney, George (1663-1707)