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If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers.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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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.

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The timely dew of sleep.

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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.

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By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

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Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

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Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

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Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

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Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

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Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

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Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.

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Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

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Faithful found among the faithless.

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Freely we serve, because freely we love.

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His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

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Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

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And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.

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