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Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue:
Where patience, honour, sweet humanity,
Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish.

— David Mallet Alfred (1740)

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Who has not known ill fortune, never knew
Himself, or his own virtue.

Alfred (1740)

Words that weep, and strains that agonise.

Strains that sigh and words that weep.

The human race are sons of sorrow born;
And each must have his portion. Vulgar minds
Refuse or cranch beneath their load: the brave
Bear theirs without repining.

Alfred (1740)

O grant me, Heaven, a middle state,
Neither too humble nor too great;
More than enough, for nature's ends,
With something left to treat my friends.

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