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: 1810
"And these young ruffians in the soul will sow / Seeds of all vices that on weakness grow."
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Date: 1817
"'--O let not Sloth depress to earth / 'Those early blossoms in their birth, / 'Which to your ripening mind is given, / 'To bloom through time, then rise to heaven!"
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Date: 1817
With "attentive hand" the "Luxuriance" of one's nature may be pruned so that branches will bear fruit
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Date: 1817
"The seeds, in earliest Childhood sown / As buds, will in the Boy be known: / In Youth, as blossoms will appear, / And in full Manhood, fruitage bear."
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