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Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

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Hide me from day's garish eye.

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Hell has no benefits, only torture.

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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

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So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

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

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Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

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

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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

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Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

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Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

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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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He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

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And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

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Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

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License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

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