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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

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I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.

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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

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All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.

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And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

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Wickedness is weakness.

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The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

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Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

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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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Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

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Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

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