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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Beattie

From labour health, from health contentment springs.

From the low prayer of want and plaint of woe / O never, never turn away thine ear! / Forlorn is this bleak wilderness below, / Ah! what were man should heaven refuse to hear!

Let man’s own sphere confine his view.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think.