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In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

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In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

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There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.

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Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

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Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

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And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

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

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Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

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United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

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Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

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