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At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

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My sentence is for open war.

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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

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When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

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Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

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Where more is meant than meets the ear.

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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

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For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

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Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

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Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

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O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

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Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

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Tears such as angels weep.

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And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

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