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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Build Fruit Ground m Strategy Plantest Under
It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Head Largeness Made Sleep Wight
Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Comprehend Doctor Honor Lying Much Sight Whatsoever
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Company Life Solitary Wretched
His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Everywhere Forever Place Time

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