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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Always Desire Much Want
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Believe Hope Hopeless Thing
Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Build Eternity Isthmus Life Proudly Two
Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Danger Equal Extreme Friend Want
Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Appreciation Blame Own Praise
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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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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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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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Agree Blunder Nature Woman
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Curiosity Devotion Doe Less Pilgrim

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