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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.

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Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.

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Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

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Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

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Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

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Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

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Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

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O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

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Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for 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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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

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

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Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.

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If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

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If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

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