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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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 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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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