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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

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It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

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Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

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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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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

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Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

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Faithful found among the faithless.

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

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Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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The never-ending flight Of future days.

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

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Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

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

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On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

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

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On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

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Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

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I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

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