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“Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.”

Mind Art Pain Joy Hate Pleasure Grief Balance Fairs Train Bounds Dues Hope Love

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton

“Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.”

Men Mind Young Pleasure Liberty Train Notion Noise Young Man Mistaken Idleness Riot Mischief Nameless Ennui

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.”

Freedom Pleasure Liberty Eternal Train Delight Plenty Bliss Heavenly Goddess Pregnant Reign Wanton

Book:The Works of the English Poets

Source: The Works of the English Poets

“An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.”

Thinking Mind States Passion Energy Pleasure Principles Conditions Produce Dresses Train Abstract Thoughtful Civilized Savages Dominion Fondness Uncivilized Train Of Thought

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft