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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

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Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

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

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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

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

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Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.

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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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See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

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For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

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Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.

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The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

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Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

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So many laws argues so many sins.

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He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fésolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

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