<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537553" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>By Philemon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft we embrace our ills by discontent,<br>And give them bulk beyond what nature meant.<br>A parent, brother, friend deceased, to cry--<br>'He's dead indeed, but he was born to die'--<br>Such temperate grief is suited to the size<br>And burden of the loss; is just and wise.<br>But to exclaim, 'Ah! wherefore was I born,<br>Thus to be left forever thus forlorn?'<br>Who thus laments his loss invites distress,<br>And magnifies a woe that might be less,<br>Through dull despondence to his lot resign'd,<br>And leaving reason's remedy behind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537553" data-title="By Philemon de William Cowper" data-description="Oft we embrace our ills by discontent, And give them bulk beyond what nature meant. A parent, brother, friend deceased, to cry-- 'He's dead indeed, but he was born to die'-- Such temperate grief is suited to the size And burden of the loss; is jus..."></div> </div> </div>

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