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Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

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In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

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Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

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The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

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Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

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From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

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The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

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

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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

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A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

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Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

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Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

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The planets in their station list'ning stood.

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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

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And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

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