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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

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Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

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Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

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He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

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He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

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Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

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Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.

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Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

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The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

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Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

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Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.

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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

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All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

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