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

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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

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It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

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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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Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

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Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

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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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Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

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Freely we serve, because freely we love.

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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

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

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And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

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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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