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To persevere
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
To persevere
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
The child is father of the man.
The child is father of the man.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he read more
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he
is.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he
is.
He did not care a button for it.
He did not care a button for it.
