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  • To be resigned 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". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.