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Alas! how easily things go wrong!
A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long,
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Alas! how easily things go wrong!
A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long,
And then comes a mist and a weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.
Once I guessed right,
And I got credit by't;
Thrice I guessed wrong,
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Once I guessed right,
And I got credit by't;
Thrice I guessed wrong,
And I kept my credit on.
In the great right of an excessive wrong.
In the great right of an excessive wrong.
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
[Lat., Injuriarum remedium est oblivio.]
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
[Lat., Injuriarum remedium est oblivio.]
Higher than the perfect song
For which love longeth,
Is the tender fear of wrong,
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Higher than the perfect song
For which love longeth,
Is the tender fear of wrong,
That never wrongeth.
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.
Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.