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Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

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

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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

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Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

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And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

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Courage never to submit of yield.

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. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.

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Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

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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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Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

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For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

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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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