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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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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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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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Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

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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. 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, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

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Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

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

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Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.

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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

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I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

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

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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

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In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

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And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?

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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

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