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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?

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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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