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Quotes by James Beattie

3 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

"O pity, great Father of light," then I cried, "Thy creature who fain would not wander from Thee ! Lo, humbled in dust, I relinquish my pride; From doubt and from darkness Thou only canst free."— filed under Humility

See truth, love, and mercy in triumph descending, And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom! On the cold cheek of death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.— filed under Immortality

How sweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of love!— filed under Truth