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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

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... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.

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

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

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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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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

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Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

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Forget thyself to marble.

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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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Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

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For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

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The brazen throat of war.

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And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

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For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

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Such joy ambition finds.

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Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

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