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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

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Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

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Evil, be thou my good.

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Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

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Hell has no benefits, only torture.

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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

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Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.

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And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

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Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.

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The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

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

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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

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By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

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Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

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Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

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Solitude is sometimes best society.

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The never-ending flight Of future days.

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So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

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