A man meets
with no more respect than he exacts.
It is often better not to see an _insult_ than to avenge it.
Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may _insult_ a dead lion.
To a native of rank, arrest was not merely a restraint, but a foul
personal _indignity_.
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His honor rooted in _dishonor_ stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
It is hard to say which of the two we ought most to lament,--the unhappy
man who sinks under the sense of his _dishonor_, or him who survives
it.
Could he with reason murmur at his case
Himself sole author of his own _disgrace_?
Whatever _disgrace_ we may have deserved, it is almost always in our
power to re-establish our character.
When in _disgrace_ with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state.
Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours
with _ignominy_ after conquest.
Wilful perpetuations of unworthy actions brand with most indelible
characters of _infamy_ the name and memory to posterity.
And when his long public life, so singularly chequered with good and evil,
with glory and _obloquy_, bad at length closed forever, it was to
Daylesford that he retired to die.
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