What's Ben |
What's Verse |
Nostalgia |
The Golden Age never was
the present Age. [1750] | The Age of Gold?
Always of old. |
Order see also PREPARATION. |
Order: Let all your things
have their places. Let each
part of your business have its
time. [Virtue 3] | Keep, as prison warder,
Time and place in order. |
Passion & Reason see also SELF-COMMAND. |
Nick’s passions grow fat and hearty; his Understanding looks consumptive! [1741] | Urges flush
Judgment’s blush. |
Hear Reason -- or she'll make
you feel her. [1744] | Sense ignored?
Senses gored. |
If Passion drives,
let Reason hold the Reins. [1749] | You're fueled by zeal?
Sense, mind the wheel! |
He is a Governor that governs his Passions, and he a Servant that serves them. [1750] | Quizlings to craves -
Rulers or slaves? |
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