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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

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The best apology against false accusers is silence.

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O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

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What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

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If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

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Calm of mind, all passion spent.

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

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And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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

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Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

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Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

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His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

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