Date: 1735, 1736
"In Men, we various Ruling Passions find, / In Women, two almost divide the kind; / Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, / The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Sway."
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Date: 1737
"With Terrors round can Reason hold her throne / Despise the known, nor tremble at th'unknown?"
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Date: 1739, 1740
"Was there one joy, whose image does not last? / But that One; most extatic, most refin'd, / Reigns fresh, and will for ever in my mind, / With such a power of charms it storm'd my soul, / That nothing ever can it's strength controul."
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Date: 1741
"But self-conceitedness does reign / In every mortal mind."
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Date: 1743
Dullness "rul'd, in native Anarchy, the mind"
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Date: 1743
"The native Anarchy of the mind is that state which precedes the time of Reason's assuming the rule of the Passions"
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Date: 1743
Dullness in the "absence of Reason," tho' she cannot regulate the Passions like Reason, yet blunts and deadens their Vigour, and, indeed, produces some of the good effects"
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Date: 1746, 1749
"But, since we never from the Breast of Fools / Can root their Passions, yet while Reason rules, / Let her hold forth her Scales with equal Hand, / Justly to punish, as the Crimes demand."
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