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'Tis in the power of Poetry to insinuate into the inmost Recesses of the Mind, to touch any Spring that moves the Heart, to agitate the Soul with any sort of Affection, and transform it into any Shape or Posture it thinks fit.

— Richard Blackmore Preface to Prince Arthur (1695)

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Man is naturally a proud Animal, and is fond of nothing more than the Breath of Fame to sooth his Vanity, and flatter his Self-Admiration.

Essays Upon Several Subjects (1716)

Fame, which is the opinion the World expresses of any Man's excellent Endowments, is the Idol to which the finest spirits have, in all Ages, burnt their Incense.

Essays Upon Several Subjects (1716)

You own a watch the invention of the mind,
Though for a single motion 'tis designed,
As well as that which is with greater thought
With various springs, for various motions wrought.

No productions of human understanding are received with such a general pleasure and approbation, as those that abound with wit and humour, on which the people set a greater value, than on the wisest and most instructive discourses.

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