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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true

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The present is an eternal now.
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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
This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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Angel Book Descend Few Friend Garden Grave House Small Wise
To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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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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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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