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Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

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It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.

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From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

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how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp

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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?

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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

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He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

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The gay motes that people the sunbeams.

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Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

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But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

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But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

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License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

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Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.

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