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"How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits / Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains! / It sounds like stories from the land of spirits / If any man obtain that which he merits / Or any merit that which he obtains."
REPLY TO THE ABOVE
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 had 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 infant's breath: / And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, / HIMSELF, his MAKER, and the ANGEL DEATH!