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Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

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Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

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Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

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

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Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

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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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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

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O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

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Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.

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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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To live a life half dead, a living death.

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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

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Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

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