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Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.

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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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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.

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Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

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The brazen throat of war.

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Every cloud has a silver lining.

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Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

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They also serve who only stand and wait.

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Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

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But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

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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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Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

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What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.

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There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.

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

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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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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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