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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.

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Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

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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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Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

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For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

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Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

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When thou attended gloriously from heaven , Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.

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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

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For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

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O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

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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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Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

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And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

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But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

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