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Altho' your frailer part must yield to Fate,
By every breach in that fair lodging made,
Its blest inhabitant is more displayed.

— John Oldham Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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Source: To Madam L. E. on her Recovery, 106
Work: Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, 1922
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Wile some no other cause for life can give
But a dull habitude to live.

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
To each affronting sot I meet, the word
Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,
And pointed satire runs him through and through.

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Curse on the man who business first designed,
And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!

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And should you visit now the seats of bliss,
You need not wear another form but this.

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Lord of myself, accountable to none,
But to my conscience, and my God alone.

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Ah, dearer than my soul…
Dearer than light, or life, or fame.

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While some no other cause for life can give
But a dull habitude to live.

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