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Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

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From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

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

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Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

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Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

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Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.

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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

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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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In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

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Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

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Reason also is choice.

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

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For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

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What is dark within me, illumine.

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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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