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

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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

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Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

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Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

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Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

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Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

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Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

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They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

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No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

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Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

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They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

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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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(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.

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Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

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