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From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

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And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

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See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

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

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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

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Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

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A short retirement urges a sweet return.

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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

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

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Faithful found among the faithless.

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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

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Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

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