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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

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Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

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God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.

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From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

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Antichrist is Mammon's son.

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For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

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License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

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The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

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Faithful found among the faithless.

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First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

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In naked beauty most adorned.

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Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

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Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

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Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

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What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

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Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

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