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They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

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Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

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Freely we serve, because freely we love.

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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

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And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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Time is the subtle thief of youth.

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But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

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Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.

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The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

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Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

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Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

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For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

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Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

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