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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Always Desire Much Want
Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Action God Governed Law Life Made Man Own Private Time
Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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City Husbandman Man Philosopher Retreat World
What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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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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Bowl Drinking Eternal Fill Glass Man Nature Round Sober
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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Consist Country Law Man Themselves
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Disease Incurable Life Success
His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Everywhere Forever Place Time

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