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

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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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