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Promptings; let all that Nature dictates be free, spontaneous, voluntary and temperate, so Vigour is preserved, Affection encreased, and Abilities too, for it was a significant Expression of the Duke of Buckingham's, in a Poem of his call'd The Enjoyment,
Love makes Men able as their Hearts are kind.
'Tis certain, all Intemperance, all outrageous Excesses, debilitate and exhaust the Spirits; weaken Nature, and render the Person unfit for many of the Offices of Life, besides the same Article; whereas a moderate use of Nature's Liberties have quite contrary Effects.
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