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To friendship every burden's light.

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John Gay
Age: 47 †
Born: 1685
Born: June 30
Died: 1732
Died: December 4
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
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Barnstaple
Devon
Burden
Friendship
Friends
Light
Every

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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
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Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise With health all taste of pleasure flies.
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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
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If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.
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Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.
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Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?
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To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
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Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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