James Beattie Quote

True dignity is his whose tranquil mind
Virtue has raised above the things below;
Who, every hope and fear to heaven resign'd
Shrinks not, though fortune aims her deadliest blow.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


True dignity is his whose tranquil mind Virtue has raised above the things below; Who, every hope and fear to heaven resign'd Shrinks not, though...

True dignity is his whose tranquil mind Virtue has raised above the things below; Who, every hope and fear to heaven resign'd Shrinks not, though...

True dignity is his whose tranquil mind Virtue has raised above the things below; Who, every hope and fear to heaven resign'd Shrinks not, though...

True dignity is his whose tranquil mind Virtue has raised above the things below; Who, every hope and fear to heaven resign'd Shrinks not, though...