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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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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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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

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God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

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All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

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And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

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Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.

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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

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