James Beattie Quotes

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• And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
• Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
• From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
• He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.
• How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.
• In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
• Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
• 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…
• Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
• Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
• 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…
• Zealous, not modest.

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