The Amaranth Or, religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, etc. Adorned with copper-plates from the best masters [by Walter Harte] |
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 | The Amaranth |  |
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The virtues of the world, which most men move,Are lay'rs from pride, or graftings on self-love :
Whatever for itself is not esteem'd,
Proves a false choice, and is not as it seem'd .
“There is a sort of seeming Good, which, if a rational mind loves, it sinneth; inasmuch as it is an object beneath the consideration of such a mind.” St. August. de Ver. Relig.
“Whatever is not loved on account of its own intrinsic worth, is not properly loved.” Idem in Soliloq. L. I, C. 13.
“In this life there is no virtue but in loving that which is truly amiable. To chuse this, is prudence; to be averted from it by no terrifying circumstances, is fortitude. To be influenced by no sort of temptation, is temperance; and to be affected by no ambitious views, is considering the thing with impartial justice as we ought to do.” Idem de Ver. Felicitat. L. II.
| The Amaranth | |