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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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 monster London laugh at me.
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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