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Mary Mollineux
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“How sweet is harmless solitude! What can its joys control? Tumults and noise may not intrude, To interrupt the soul.”
Mary Mollineux (1651–1695) first seen 1683 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Solitude", st. 1 (wr. 1683; pub. 1702)
“These rugged walls less grievous are to me, Than those bedeck'd with curious arras be T'a guilty conscience; to a wounded heart, A palace cannot palliate that smart: Tho' drunk with pleasure, dull with opiates, Some seem as senseless of their sad estates, Till on their dying-beds conscience awakes. But tho' the righteous be in bonds confin'd, They inwardly sweet satisfaction find.”
Mary Mollineux (1651–1695) first seen 1684 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meditations concerning our Imprisonment, only for Conscience sake, in Lancaster Castle", l. 38 (wr. 1684; pub. 1702)