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
Rural scenes may "nurse / The growing seeds of wisdom"
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Date: 1785
Virtue is like a "lowly creeping, modest and yet fair" plant that thrives most "where little seen"
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Date: 1785
Man in society is like a flower: "'Tis there alone / His faculties expanded in full bloom/ Shine out"
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Date: 1786
"Like caterpillars dangling under trees / By slender threads, and swinging in the breeze, / Which filthily bewray and sore disgrace / The boughs in which are bred the unseemly race, / While every worm industriously weaves / And winds his web about the rivell'd leaves; / So numerous are the follie...
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Date: April 5, 1781, 1788
"Cultivated ground has few weeds; a mind occupied by lawful business, has little room for useless regret."
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