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Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

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

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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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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

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He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.

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It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.

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The sacred influence of light appears.

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Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

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Time is the subtle thief of youth.

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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

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God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

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But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.

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This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

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Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

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Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

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Evil on itself shall back recoil.

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His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.

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