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We're charm'd with distant views of happiness,
But near approaches make the prospect less.

— Thomas Yalden

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When beauty in distress appears,
An irresistless charm it bears;
In every breast does pity move,
Pity, the tenderest part of love.

For malice will with joy the lie receive,
Report, and what it wishes true, believe.

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