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The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

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Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.

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Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

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Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

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Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

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A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

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Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate

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Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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

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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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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

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The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

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Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse

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