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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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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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Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

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When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

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Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

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If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

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What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

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To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

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The timely dew of sleep.

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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

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Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

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He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

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And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

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

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Believe and be confirmed.

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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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