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The world’s a scene of changes.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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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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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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
This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Change Constant Nature Scene
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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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