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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

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

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Hide me from day's garish eye.

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Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

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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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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

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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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Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

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

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Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

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For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

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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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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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The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

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Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

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