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Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

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Hide me from day's garish eye.

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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

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Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.

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Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

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And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

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And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

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The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

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In naked beauty most adorned.

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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

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Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

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Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

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When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

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