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!"
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Date: 1747-8
Power's "amplest, best Extent" is "An Empire o'er [one's] Mind"
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Date: 1747-8
"Souls know no conquerors."
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Date: 1747-8
"In the other, the poet says not truth; for Conscience is the Conqueror of Souls: At least it is the Conqueror of mine: And who ever thought it a narrow one?"
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Date: 1747-8
One may have a soul like a shield that "take in all" of Fortune's quiver
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Date: 1748
"Cæsar, Pompey, and Alexander the Great are continually in his mouth; and as he reads a good deal without any judgment to digest it, his ideas are confused, and his harrangues as unintelligible as infinite."
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Date: 1747-8
Imaginations may be "un-reined"
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Date: 1747-8
Passion may blind the judgment and help on meditated delusion
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Date: 1748
"I now began to look upon myself as a gentleman in reality; learned to dance of a Frenchman whom I had cured of a fashionable distemper; frequented plays during the holidays; became the oracle of an ale-house, where every dispute was referred to my decision; and at length contracted an acquaintan...
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Date: 1748
"I had made a conquest of her heart, and concluded myself the happiest man alive"
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