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• To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
• I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.
• Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular,…
• Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat…
• If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.
• As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.
• The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.
• So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this…
• They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
• Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

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