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“Taught by long miseries, we find,‘Repose is seated in the mind;
‘And most men, soon or late, have found.
‘Tis there, or no where, to be found.
‘This real wisdom timely knows,
‘Without experience of the woes;
‘Nor need instructive smart to see,
‘That all below is vanity:
‘Loss, disappointment, passion, strife,
‘Whate'er torments, or troubles life,
‘Tho' groundless, grievous in its stay,
‘Twill shake our tenements of clay,
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‘And pain like pleasure's but a dream.”
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