< The Hesperides & Noble Numbers < Hesperides
158. VIRTUE IS SENSIBLE OF SUFFERING.
Though a wise man all pressures can sustain,
His virtue still is sensible of pain:
Large shoulders though he has, and well can bear,
He feels when packs do pinch him, and the where.
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