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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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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

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Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

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But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

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Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting--since our present lot appears For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to ourselves more woe.

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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.

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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

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Hide me from day's garish eye.

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It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

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Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

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