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To be resign'd when ills betide, Patient when favours are deni'd, And pleas'd with favours given, Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part; This is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to heaven.
The Fireside, stanza 11, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "The incense of the heart may rise", Pierpont, Every Place a Temple, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). | ||
