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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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
The world’s a scene of changes.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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Least May Our Sorrow Treat Wish
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Among Dwell Jasmin Reason Rose Smell
Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Company Life Solitary Wretched

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