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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

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Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

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Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse

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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

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Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.

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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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And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

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Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

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Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

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Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

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And out of good still to find means of evil.

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Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

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