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

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The sacred influence of light appears.

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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.

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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

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What is dark within me, illumine.

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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

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All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

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Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

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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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Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

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Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

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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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With thee conversing I forget all time.

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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

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