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“Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just,
Stoop’d down serene and wrote them in the dust,—
Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,
Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind.
There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,
And grieved they could not ’scape the Almighty eye.”

Samuel Madden

Boulter's Monument (1745), dedicated to Frederick, Prince of Wales, who had been Madden's student.

“In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.”

Samuel Madden

Recounted by Samuel Johnson.
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“Words are men’s daughters, but God’s sons are things.”

Samuel Madden

Boulter's Monument (1745). At Madden's request, the poem was revised for publication by Samuel Johnson, some authorities hold that and that this line was an insertion by Johnson; however Johnson's own account was that he had merely "blotted out" unnecessary lines of the poem. See James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies (1791) p. 175. Compare: "Words are women, deeds are men", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.