Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep But hear his death, ye blockheads hear and sleep.
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That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
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