What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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Fraught with rapture is the night!
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Why, young orphan, all this wailing?
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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The coward threatens when he is safe.
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But by gods and men are unrequited:
For ye love not,--ne'er have learnt to love!
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