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But it is a better (bitter) thing to hate ye.
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Hoar captures the complexity of love and hate in a Scottish prayer, highlighting emotional depth.
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Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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