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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

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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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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

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In naked beauty most adorned.

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To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

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Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

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Hell has no benefits, only torture.

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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

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In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

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Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

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Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

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Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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Evil on itself shall back recoil.

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Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

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