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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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In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

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Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

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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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It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

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Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

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