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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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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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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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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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Age Come Known Own Reputation
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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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Bravery Delight Eye Several World

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