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Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

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And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

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It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.

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My sentence is for open war.

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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

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The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

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The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

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The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

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Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.

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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

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For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

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Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

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Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

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Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

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The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

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The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

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She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

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Solitude is sometimes best society.

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