James Beattie Quotes
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And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
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Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
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From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
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He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.
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How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.
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In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
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Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
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No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond…
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Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
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Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
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At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard…
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Zealous, not modest.
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