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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

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But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

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The brazen throat of war.

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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

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The planets in their station list'ning stood.

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The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

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Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

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

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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

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In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

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Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

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And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

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