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When it is present, people imitate it. They long after it when it has departed. Throughout all time it marches, crowned in triumph, victorious in the competition for the prizes that are undefiled.
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Verse 2. Itself. Virtue extorts the esteem even of worldlings. Antiochus wept for Onias. 2 Maccabees 4:37. Calmet.—Sublatum ex oculis quærimus invidi. Hor. iii. od. 24.—Conflicts. In the cause of continence. Calmet.
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