James Beattie quotes

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. (James Beattie)
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. View quote
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He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man. View quote
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Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? View quote
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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. View quote
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How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love. View quote
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From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy. View quote
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In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame. View quote
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Every man of learning wishes, that his son may be learned; and that not so much from a view to pecuniary advantage, as from a desire to have him supplied with the means of useful instruction and liberal amusement. View quote
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What is a law, if those who make it Become the forwardest to break it? View quote
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Ah! when shall it dawn on the night of the grave! (James Beattie)
Laws, as we read in ancient sages, Have been like cobwebs in all ages: Cobwebs for little flies are spread, And laws for little folks are made; But if an insect of renown, Hornet or beetle, wasp or drone, Be caught in quest of sport or plunder, The flimsy fetter flies in sunder. View quote
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Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime. View quote
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Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms. View quote
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Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more; I mourn, but you woodlands I mourn not for you! For spring is returning your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance and glittering with dew. Nor yet for the ravage of winter I mourn, Kind nature the embryo blossom shall save; But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn? View quote
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But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn? Oh when shall it dawn on the night of the grave? View quote
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By the glare of false science betray'd, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind. View quote
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When squint-eyed Slander plies the unhallow'd tongue, From poison'd maw when Treason weaves his line, And Muse apostate (infamy to song!) Grovels, low muttering, at Sedition's shrine. View quote
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Though richest hues the peacock's plumes adorn, Yet horror screams from his discordant throat. Rise, sons of harmony, and hail the morn, While warbling larks on russet pinions float; Or seek at noon the woodland scene remote, Where the gray linnets carol from the hill: O let them ne'er, with artificial note, To please a tyrant, strain the little bill, But sing what heaven inspires, and wander where they will. View quote
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Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave! View quote
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Wilt thou debase the heart which God refined? No; let thy heaven-taught soul to heaven aspire, To fancy, freedom, harmony, resigned; Ambition's groveling crew forever left behind. (James Beattie)
To the pure soul by Fancy's fire refined, Ah, what is mirth but turbulence unholy, When with the charm compared of heavenly melancholy. View quote
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James Beattie

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Occupation: Scottish Poet
Born: October 25, 1735
Died: August 18, 1803
Quotes count: 22
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