Quote#Love
Endless Perfections after all conspire
Quote byJohn Byrom · 1692–1763
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Miscellaneous Poems (1773), The True Grounds Of Eternal And Immutable Rectitude" St. 8.
English (original)
Endless Perfections after all conspire, And to adore excite and to admire; But to plain Minds the Plainest Pow'r Above Is Native Goodness to attract our Love; Centre of all Its various Pow'r and Skill Is One Divine, Immutable Good Will.
— John Byrom
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