Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays till read more

Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays till we call, and then not often near.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I
could resist till I saw read more

You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I
could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I
endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love."

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Let reason govern desire.

Let reason govern desire.

Before you give up, think of the reason why you held on so long.

Before you give up, think of the reason why you held on so long.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning
them.
[Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire read more

It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning
them.
[Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir les choses pour en
raisonner.]