Date: 1782
"Happiest soil" may be found "in the serenest minds"
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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
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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