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The love of God ought continually to predominate in the mind, and give to every act of duty grace and animation.
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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think, — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
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And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high,
The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun.
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Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free;
Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms;
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
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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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James Beattie
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Born:
October 25, 1735
Died:
August 18, 1803
(aged 67)
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James Beattie was a Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher.
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mind
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