James Beattie

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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 husband and the faithful wife.
- James Beattie
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From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
- James Beattie
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And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
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He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.
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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 on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.
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Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
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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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Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
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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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Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
- James Beattie