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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

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And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

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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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When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

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The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.

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His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

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What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

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Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

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Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.

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Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

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

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Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

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Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

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Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

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Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

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