Date: 1785
"In cities foul example on most minds / Begets its likeness"
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Date: 1785
"The shifts and turns, / The expedients and inventions multiform / To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms / Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win,-- / To arrest the fleeting images that fill / The mirror of the mind, and hold them fast, / And force them sit, till he has pencil'd off / ...
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Date: 1785
"An heav'nly mind / May be indiff'rent to her house of clay, / And slight the hovel as beneath her care"
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Date: 1785
A body "queint in its deportment and attire" may (not) lodge "an heav'nly mind"
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Date: 1785
Prejudice may take "deeper root" in "men of stronger minds"
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Date: 1785
Learning may grow beneath Disciplines care, "a thriving and vigorous plant"
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Date: 1785
The mind may be "enlighten'd from above"
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Date: 1785
Rural scenes may "nurse / The growing seeds of wisdom"
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Date: 1785
Wisdom is a pearl "with most success / Sought in still water, and beneath clear skies"
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