Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
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So be my passing My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.William Ernest Henley
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Prince, pride must have a fall.
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What have I done for you, England, my England; What is there I would not do, England, my own.
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Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.
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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
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