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He chooses best, whose labor entertains
His vacant fancy most; the toil you hate
Fatigues you soon, and scarce improves your limbs.

— John Armstrong Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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This restless world
Is full of chances, which by habit's power
To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

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'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

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Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.

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Of right and wrong he taught
Truths as refined as ever Athens heard;
And (strange to tell) he practis'd what he preach'd.

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Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

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