“ A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. ”
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“ Hope, of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure. ”
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“ Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. ”
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“ For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room. ”
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“ For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room. ”
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“ An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care. ”
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“ An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care. ”
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“ An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care. ”
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“ Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. ”
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“ An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care. ”
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“ Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages. ”
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“ Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ”
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“ The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature, is inconstancy. ”
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“ Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high — Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why? ”
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“ This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high. ”
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“ Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on the number, but the choice of friends. ”
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“ The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again; The Plants suck in the Earth and are With constant Drinking fresh and fair. ”
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“ The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again; The Plants suck in the Earth and are With constant Drinking fresh and fair. ”
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“ The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature, is inconstancy. ”
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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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“ The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again; The Plants suck in the Earth and are With constant Drinking fresh and fair. ”
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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 never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that.... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. ”
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“ Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on the number, but the choice of friends. ”
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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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