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For shame, dear Friend! renounce this canting strain! What would'st thou have a good great man obtain? Place titles salary a gilded chain Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain? Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
1809
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