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

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Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

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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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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

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For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

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These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

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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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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

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Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

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By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

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The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ.

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

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I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

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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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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

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