Date: 1765
"Those objects that assimilate the taste / To Nature's standard, ever rightly plac'd; / Stamp on the passive heart each soft impress"
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Date: 1765
" Honest alike in mutual praise, or blame; / Whose kindred souls bore one impressive stamp"
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Date: 1765
"The man, whose life's a transcript of his heart; / Acts both a selfish, and a gen'rous part; / Above the bait of honour and of pelf, / He cheats no mortal, nor deceives himself."
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Date: 1765
"Virtue resides not in the head, but heart"
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Date: 1765
"Such objects, by thy gloom inspiring caught, / No more rush boundless on her crouded thought."
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Date: 1765
"Why sent below, a moment or an age, / To act his part on life's oft-trodden stage; / The appetites and passions in his train, / With dignity the drama to sustain"
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