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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that

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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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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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