'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
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Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love, And, when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between and bid us part.James Thomson
Ingratitude is treason to mankind.
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The City is of Night perchance of Death, But certainly of Night for never there Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath After the dewy dawning's cold gray air.
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Base Envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
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Or where the Northern ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.
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For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh, Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn.
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