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If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them. - [Competition] O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou. - [Liberty] The little smiling cottage! where at eve He meets his rosy children at the door, Prattling their welcomes, and his honest wife, With good brown cake and bacon slice, intent To cheer his hunger after labor hard. - [Home] Content I live, this is my stay; I seek no more than may suffice; I press to bear no haughty sway; Look, what I lack my mind supplies. Lo, thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring. - My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is [Contentment] I press to bear no haughty sway, I wish no more than may suffice, I do no more than well I may, Look, what I lack my mind supplies. Lo! thus I triumph like a king, My mind's content with anything. - My Mind to me a Kingdom Is [Contentment] My mynde to me a kingdome is, Such preasent joyes therein I fynde That it excells all other blisse That earth afforde or growes by kynde Though muche I wante which moste would have Yet still my mynde forbiddes to crave. - Rawlinson MSS. (85, p. 17), found in the Bodleian Library at Oxford [Mind]
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