_Want_ is a bitter and hateful good,
Because its virtues are not understood;
Yet many things, impossible to thought,
Have been by _need_ to full perfection brought.
Hundreds would never have known _want_ if they had not first known
waste.
O! reason not the _need_; our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life is cheap as beast's.
The Christian inhabitants of Thessaly would be reduced to
_destitution_.
It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their
_indigence_ from the rest.
Chill _penury_ repress'd their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.
Chill _penury_ weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes
be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
Where _penury_ is felt the thought is chain'd,
And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.
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_Regrets_ over the past should chasten the future.
He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king with expressions of great
_compunction_.
Through no disturbance of my soul,
Or strong _compunction_ in me wrought,
I supplicate for thy control.
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