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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

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The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

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Forget thyself to marble.

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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.

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God shall be all in all.

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God made thee perfect, not immutable.

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To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

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I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

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It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

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Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

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Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

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Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

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The planets in their station list'ning stood.

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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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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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