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Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

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Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

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If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

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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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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

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And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?

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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

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The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

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Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

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At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

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Reason also is choice.

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Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

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Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

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