James Beattie Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ouselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.	Education
2	Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave: And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.	Waters
3	By the glare of false science betrayed, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.	Science
4	Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.	Innocence
5	What cannot art and industry perform, When science plans the progress of their toil!	Invention
6	Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn: But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb, Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.	Fate
7	From labor health, from health contentment spring; Contentment opes the source of every joy.	Happiness

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