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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

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Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.

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Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

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Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

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Luck is the residue of design.

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Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

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This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

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But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

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So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

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Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.

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Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

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