All Quotes by James Beattie
“Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.”
“And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.”
“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.”
“Wilt thou debase the heart which God refined?Ambition's groveling crew forever left behind.”
“To the pure soul by Fancy's fire refined,When with the charm compared of heavenly melancholy.”
“From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.”
“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.”