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Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.

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A bevy of fair women.

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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

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Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.

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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

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Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

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. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

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Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.

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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

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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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Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

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Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

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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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A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

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