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A wise man is never so busy as in the solitary contemplation of God and the works of Nature.
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Business that is ready and practicable goes off with ease; but when it is too heavy for the bearer, they fall both together.
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If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind; our best hours escape us, the worst are to come.
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Oh! the delights of rest when a man comes to be weary, and of meat when he is heartily hungry.
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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet every body fools us out of it that has a mind to it.