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A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

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Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

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But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

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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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Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

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Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.

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God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

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No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

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