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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.

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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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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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