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Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

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The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.

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Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

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Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

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He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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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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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

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For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

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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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Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

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Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

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And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

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Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.

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Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

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