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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

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When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

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Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

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Our reason is our law.

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He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fésolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

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Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

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If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

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Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

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Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

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To live a life half dead, a living death.

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Evil on itself shall back recoil.

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Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

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Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

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And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

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Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.

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