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Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

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And out of good still to find means of evil.

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O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

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Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

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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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But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

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What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

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I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.

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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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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 adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

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And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

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Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

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