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 Ah, don't be sorrowful darling,
 And don't be sorrowful, pray:
  Taking the year together, my dear,
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 Ah, don't be sorrowful darling,
 And don't be sorrowful, pray:
  Taking the year together, my dear,
   There isn't more night than day. 
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
 A happier lot were mine,
 If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,
  For I read more 
 A happier lot were mine,
 If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,
  For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,--
   Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none,
    And no dear mother. 
 My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.
 [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu read more 
 My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.
 [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu me reste.] 
 Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
 [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.]  
 Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
 [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.] 
 Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee,
 Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.  
 Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee,
 Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. 
 In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most 
unhappy kind of misfortune.
 [Lat., In read more 
 In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most 
unhappy kind of misfortune.
 [Lat., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est 
infortunii fuisse felicem.] 
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by read more
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.