In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd 't is fix'd as in a frost Contracted all, retiring to the breast But strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Thy oaths I quit, thy memory resign;Forget, renounce me, hate whate'er was mine.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs,but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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A Wit's a feather, and a Chief a rod An honest Man's the noblest work of God.
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We think our Fathers Fools, so wise we grow;
Our wiser Sons, no doubt, will think us so.
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