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

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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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