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No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond... →
How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.
In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.
From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill... →
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