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Henry Howard - The Things That Cause A Quiet Life
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   My friend, the things that do attain
   The happy life be these, I find:
   The riches left, not got with pain,
   The fruitful ground; the quiet mind;

   The equal friend; no grudge, no strife;
   No charge of rule nor governance;
   Without disease the healthy life;
   The household of continuance;

   The mean diet, no dainty fare;
   True wisdom joined with simpleness;
   The night discharged of all care,
   Where wine the wit may not oppress;

   The faithful wife, without debate;
   Such sleeps as may beguile the night:
   Content thyself with thine estate,
   Neither wish death, nor fear his might.
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