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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,

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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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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 getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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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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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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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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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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